Talks

Below are a collection of talks and presentations I have given though the years. This is not an exhaustive list; if you know of a presentation that you’d like to see added, please reach out to me!

2024

re:Invent 2024 (December 2024): A practitioner’s guide to data for generative AI
re:Invent 2024 (December 2024): Best practices for querying vector data for gen AI apps in PostgreSQL (project)
The Register (November 2024): Best practices for querying vector data for generative AI apps
PGConf.EU 2024 (October 2024): Dissimilarity search: implementing in-memory vector search algorithms to PostgreSQL (slides) (video)
PGConf.NYC 2024 (September 2024): Best practices for using pgvector (slides)
PGDay.UK 2024 (September 2024): Vectors: Building support for a nasty data type
AWS Summit NYC 2024 (July 2024): Build generative AI–powered search with Amazon Aurora and Amazon RDS
AWS Summit Washington DC 2024 (June 2024): Best practices for querying vector data for gen AI apps in PostgreSQL
PGConf.dev 2024 (May 2024): Vectors: How to better support a nasty data type in PostgreSQL
PGDay Chicago 2024 (April 2024): A year in review of vectors on PostgreSQL
SCaLE 21x (March 2024): Vectors are the new JSON (slides)
AWS OnAir (March 2024) How Amazon Aurora Optimized Reads improves performance of gen AI apps (video)

2023

PGConf.EU 2023 (December 2023): Vectors are the new JSON (slides)
PGConf.EU 2023 (December 2023): The journey towards active-active replication in PostgreSQL (slides)
PGConf.EU 2023 (December 2023): Community Panel - Postgres at Scale: Dealing With Challenging Workloads
re:Invent 2023 (November 2023): Best practices for querying vector data for gen AI apps in PostgreSQL (project)
re:Invent 2023 (November 2023): AWS open source strategy and contributions for PostgreSQL
Carnegie Mellon ML<=>DB Seminar Series (November 2023): pgvector: Stylish Hierarchical Navigable Small World Indexes! (video)
Open Source Summit Europe 2023 (September 2023): Keynote: Contributing to Critical Open Source Projects: Lessons from PostgreSQL (video)
AWS Fireside Chat (September 2023): Building ML capabilities with PostgreSQL and pgvector extension
PGCon 2023 (May 2023): Vectors are the new JSON (slides)
PGCon 2023 (May 2023): The Journey Towards Active-Active Replication in PostgreSQL (video slides)

2022

re:Invent 2022 (November 2022): Introducing Trusted Language Extensions for PostgreSQL (project)
PGConf EU 2022 (October 2022): Adaptive PgBouncer autoscaling with Karpenter
AWS Online Tech Talks (September 2022): Deploying Amazon RDS database for applications in Kubernetes
Chicago PostgreSQL User Group (July 2022): PostgreSQL 15 Features and How They Impact You (slides)
San Francisco Bay Area PostgreSQL User Group (June 2022): Get Your Insecure PostgreSQL Passwords to SCRAM!
Percona Live 2022 (May 2022): Looking ahead at PostgreSQL 15 (slides)
Percona Live 2022 (May 2022): Get Your Insecure PostgreSQL Passwords to SCRAM!
Data on Kubernetes (January 2022): Production Postgres Made Easy on Kubernetes (video)

2021

PGConf NYC 2021 (December 2021): Get Your Insecure PostgreSQL Passwords to SCRAM (slides)
San Francisco PostgreSQL User Group (November 2021): Let’s Build a Complex, Real-Time Data Management Application (slides)
Chicago PostgreSQL User Group (October 2021): Let’s Build a Complex, Real-Time Data Management Application (slides)
(September 2021): Databases on Kubernetes: Enabling Innovative Apps from Data Center to the Edge (video)
Crunch & Learn (July 2021): Crunchy Postgres for Kubernetes 5.0 (video)
DevNation Federal (June 2021): Data Analytics for the Edge (video)
Red Hat Summit 2021 (June 2021): Postgres on OpenShift the GitOps Way

2020

OpenShift Commons (September 2020): High Availability PostgreSQL on OpenShift…and more! (slides) (video #1 video #2)
PGCon 2020 (May 2020): Protect Your PostgreSQL Passwords: How SCRAM Works and Why You Need It (slides)
Red Hat Community Central (March 2020): High-Availability PostgreSQL on Kubernetes (video)
Open Demo (March 2020): Best Practices for Running Highly Available PostgreSQL in Production for Ansible Tower (video)

2019

PGConf.EU 2019 (October 2019): Safely Protect Your Passwords and Tell Others to SCRAM! (slides)
AnsibleFest 2019 (September 2019): Best Practices for Running PostgreSQL in Production with Ansible Tower (slides video)
Red Hat Summit (May 2019): Running your own Database-as-a-Service on Red Hat OpenShift with the Crunchy PostgreSQL Operator
Red Hat Summit (May 2019): Crunchy PostgreSQL Operator: How to run elastic high-availability open source PostgreSQL on OpenShift
SCaLE 17x (March 2019): Operating PostgreSQL with Kubernetes at Scale