When: 6-8pm Thursday April 21, 2016
Where: Iovation
Who: Eric Ferreira, Database Engineer, Amazon Web Services
What: How to hide a petabyte-scale Data warehouse inside a small OLTP database
You may have heard that Amazon Redshift is a fast, fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse. You’ve heard that it’s a shared-nothing cluster architecture, that it scales to hundreds of nodes and terabytes, and that it’s “based on Postgres”. How is that combination possible, and how much of Postgres survived that transformation? Eric Ferreira, who was the first engineer to work on Redshift, will discuss the design, tradeoffs and modifications made to make Redshift the scalable system it is today. Bring your questions!
We will also talk about ways to mix and match Postgres (OLTP) tables and Redshift (DW) tables on a single connection using pgboucer-rr and Postgres external data sources.
Eric started in the database world 26 years ago in Brazil and has implemented most flavors of RDBMS thought his career. He joined Amazon on 2003 and while on AWS/RDS worked on bringing various databases engines into the service. 5 years ago he ventured to start the project that would become Redshift.
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Our meeting will be held at Iovation, on the 32nd floor of the US Bancorp Tower at 111 SW 5th (5th & Oak). It’s right on the Green & Yellow Max lines. Underground bike parking is available in the parking garage; outdoors all around the block in the usual spots. No bikes in the office, sorry!
Elevators open at 5:45 and building security closes access to the floor at 6:30.
When you arrive at the Iovation office, please sign in on the iPad at the reception desk.
See you there!
