I didn’t want to repost my professional blog here, but I wanted to mention that it was a surprisingly positive experience. With all my reservations about online conferences, I really like how Microsoft is doing it! As with everything during the last several months, my participation was rushed, and I felt horrible about it. I thought that my recorded presentation was terrible, but it ended up not being as bad as I thought! OK, I believe they edited it a little bit, but still! I had to be present at Discord during and after my talk for Q&A, and then I realized that there was nothing so much ach
Category: professional
My audience is slowly but surely becoming more diverse…
PG Day Chicago – We Did It!
Conference Setup
A Moment Of Parental Pride
At SCale Conference in Pasadena
All Postgres-Related
Although my initial desire was to have a short vacation in January, my trip ended up being work-related and Postgres-related. I spent the first day of my trip in our London office, and although the weather was great, I only saw it through the office window:
I had to wake up at 4 AM the next day, so I couldn’t do much. Of course, it turned out that I needed to login to work, and then I met with one of my Postgres colleagues for dinner.
Then I flew to Helsinki, but because of the strike, we had to leave for Brussels the next day. We had a day for museums, and then on Friday, there was a Postgres Day at FOSDEM, which we both attended. I am not going to talk about technical things here (there is another blog for that), but there was one more book signing:
There was also a dinner for Aiven community advocates, which was in a very cool place, where I should have taken more pictures, but I was too busy talking.
And then, it was FOSDEM itself, a very popular and super-crowded event. I was happy that I met most of the people I wanted to meet, and I think I will try to get there next year as well – there are a lot of opportunities to step out of the world of Postgres into a bigger Open Source world.
Employee Spotlight
My company featured me internally at the Employee Spotlight and externally :). Those who know me can tell that this interview was extensively polished (not only from the grammar perspective) to the extent that I was ready to call it off. However, we finally agreed on the edits :).
The DRW Blog post is here
My Talk At PG Conf EU
Since this talk was not really technical, I thought some of my friends will be interested in watching it:)
Hettie's Reflections 