IT Leader, Mentor, and Speaker

As a seasoned IT leader with a passion for technology, I'm excited to share my insights on industry trends, best practices, and emerging technologies. Join me as I explore the latest developments in cloud computing, devops, Agile methodologies, and more. My blog is a mix of technical and analog life observations. I do not have a regular posting cadence, but I do try to keep this feed fairly current.

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My migration from MySQL to PostgreSQL is complete. I managed to finish staging my data last night, and I had planned on mak...

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I migrated my main personal website from WordPress to Grav over two years ago. I found that I did not need the overhead of W...

I have been spending a fair amount of time recently in the world of distributed SQL so that I am well versed for a future pro...

ClickHouse is a popular open-source column-oriented database that is known for its speed and scalability. It has gained sign...

I recently mentioned PgBadger in my PostgreSQL tuning article, and it really deserves a post of its own. Pgbadger is a very...

PgBouncer is a connection pooler for PostgreSQL. It can be used to improve the performance of PostgreSQL by reducing the n...

PostgreSQL is an open-source relational database management system emphasizing extensibility and SQL compliance. It is a pow...