Conference: PGDay Chicago 2023

Title: Partitioning Billions of Rows Without Downtime
Date: 2023-04-20
Level: Intermediate
Speaker: Andrew Atkinson

  • Promote PostgreSQL Declarative Table Partitioning
  • Grow knowledge and usage, especially for app developers
  • Discuss challenges, mistakes, and share open source code samples from a recent conversion

Blog post: PGDay Chicago 2023 Conference

Podcast: Ruby For All

Title: The Database Wizard with Andrew Atkinson
Date: January 19, 2023

Join us for this episode of Ruby for All to hear Andrew (Andy) Atkinson discuss all things databases. He talks about the differences between MySQL and PostgreSQL, transactions, locking, pgbouncer, query optimization, and more. Plus, he shares his preference for PostgreSQL. Come learn about databases with Andy, Andrew, and Julie!

https://www.rubyforall.com/episodes/the-database-wizard-with-andrew-atkinson

https://dev.to/andatki/ruby-for-all-podcast-my-guest-experience-2do1

Podcast: Rubber Duck Dev Show

Title: Scaling All the Things! with Andrew Atkinson
Date: Sept 21, 2022

Super September continues with Andrew Atkinson sharing his insights on scaling your stuff! We’ll talk about both the db side and the app side!

Podcast: Code With Jason

Title: 160 - PostgreSQL with Andrew Atkinson
Date: August 2022

In this episode I talk with Andrew Atkinson about PostgreSQL and databases. We talk about check constraints, foreign keys, and other PostgreSQL/database concepts.

https://www.codewithjason.com/podcast/11223850-160-postgresql-with-andrew-atkinson/

Conference: RailsConf 2022

Title: Puny to Powerful PostgreSQL Rails Apps
Date: 2021-05-18
Level: Intermediate
Speaker: Andrew Atkinson

This talk covers 5 challenging areas scaling Rails applications on PostgreSQL databases. From identifying symptoms to applying solutions and understanding trade-offs, this talk will equip you with practical working knowledge you can apply immediately.

Blog post: RailsConf 2022 Conference

Conference: PGConf NYC 2021

Title: How we made PG Fitter, Happier, More Productive
Date: 2021-12-02
Level: Intermediate
Speaker: Andrew Atkinson

Internal Talk: Removing PostgreSQL Unused Indexes

January 2021
Why unused indexes are bad and how to remove them

Conference: RubyConf Argentina 2021

Andy presented in Buenos Aires at RubyConf Argentina 2012 about how his team applied Lean Startup principles to their work at LivingSocial.

Andy Atkinson speaking at RubyConf Argentina 2012 Andy Atkinson speaking at RubyConf 2012. Photo by RubyConf Argentina

Andy Atkinson speaking at RubyConf Argentina 2012 Andy Atkinson speaking at RubyConf 2012. Photo by RubyConf Argentina

En marzo del 2013 empecé a trabajar con el equipo de LetsBonus en Barcelona, España. LetsBonus es una filial de LivingSocial.

User Groups and Meetups

In the past, Andy has attended and presented at monthly meetups.

  • Ruby Users of Minnesota (Minneapolis, MN)
  • B’More on Rails (Baltimore, MD)
  • Boston Ruby Group
  • Barcelona on Rails
  • Twin Cities Java User Group (TCJUG)
  • CocoaHeads of Minnesota