FOSDEM 2025
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The Postgres Meetup group of the Netherlands
Happy New Year! 🎉
As we step into 2025, we want to extend our warmest wishes to you. May this year bring you joy, success, and exciting opportunities.
We are grateful for your continued support and enthusiasm for the PostgreSQL community, and we are thrilled to invite you to the PostgreSQL User Meetup taking place on February 13, 2025, in Amsterdam.
We are happy to present you with an engaging and interesting program containing talks of Ruud Schilders and Ruud van der Gijp. As usual we have some space in the program reserved for anyone who wants to do a lightning talk. Please contact us through a personal message or on meetup.com
This time around we are welcomed by JetBrains in Amsterdam. We are very grateful to them that they are willing to host us and provide us with food & drinks!
We hope to meet many of you at the meetup as this is a moment where PostgreSQL users can connect, share knowledge, and discuss the latest developments in the PostgreSQL ecosystem.
We look forward to a great meetup!
Feike Steenbergen
Gerard- Zuidweg
Meetup Program
17:30 – 18.25: Welcome, Beer & Bites
18:25 – 18:30: Opening
18:30 – 19:10 ‘Mastodon and PostgreSQL – …and then November happened’
By Ruud Schilders – DBA since 1998 and selfhoster
A story of the explosive growth of a Mastodon instance, along with the associated scalability issues, including those related to the PostgreSQL database.
Break
19.15 – 19.50 ‘From 1 to over 200 HA PostgreSQL clusters in 6 months withKubernetes’
By Ruud van der Gijp – DevOps Nationale Politie
At the National Police, we have experienced impressive growth in our Software-as-a-Service platform over the past year by utilizing CloudNativePG on Kubernetes with Cilium as the CNI. This platform has helped us centralize data, reduce operational costs, and innovate faster. In this session, I will take you through our journey:
- How we grew from a single PostgreSQL cluster to more than 200 clusters.
- What challenges we encountered along the way and how we overcame them.
- What benefits Kubernetes and CloudNativePG have brought us.
Be inspired by our experiences and discover how scalable data platforms can contribute to innovation within a complex organization.
19.59 – 20:00: Lightning Talks
20:00- 20:30: Wrap up and drinks
Lightning Talks
What are Lightning Talks?
A Lightning talk is a short presentation given at a conference or meetup. Unlike other presentations, Lightning Talks last only a few minutes and several are usually given in a short time slot by different speakers. Everyone has the opportunity to give their views, share a short topic or ask for input from the audience in the span of 1 slot.
During the PostgreSQL Usergroup NL meetups, through the Lightning Talks, we provide a low-threshold stage for participants to share their experience and knowledge.
Would you like to submit a Lighting Talk, do you have a short topic, would you like to share something within the PostgreSQL domain or what it touches? Send us an email with your suggestion, your topic, or just your name requesting a time slot and we will schedule you into the Lightning Talks! You can also put your name on the list on the night itself!
Location
The meetup will be held at Jetbrains in Amsterdam:
Adress:
Terrace Tower, Gelrestraat 16
1079 MZ Amsterdam
Nederland
Accessibility:
The accessibility of JetBrains is excellent. By car, the JetBrains office is located across from the RAI. Take exit s109 on the A10 ring road.
There is ample parking available around the RAI.
Are you traveling by public transport? Head to Amsterdam RAI station.
Signup for the meetup
Feel free to register for this Dutch PostgreSQL community meetup. Thanks to the organization by OptimaData and the hospitality of JetBrains, this is a free event that includes food and drinks. You can register via the link above on our meetup page on meetup.com. If you don’t have a meetup.com account yet or are not yet a member of the PostgreSQL Usergroup NL, sign up for free and register for the meetup.
