Date: October 24, 2019
Guest Speaker: Andrew Nelson, Developer Advocate from YugaByte
About Vancouver Postgres User Meetup Group
Vancouver Postgres is a Postgres user meetup group based in Vancouver, Canada. It specializes in building Postgres users to the related ecosystem including but not limited to technologies such as RDS Postgres, Aurora for Postgres, Google Postgres, PostgreSQL.Org Postgres, Greenplum, Timescale and ZomboDB.
User Group Home Page: https://www.meetup.com/Vancouver-Postgres/
Guest Speaker: Andrew Nelson
We are pleased to announced Andrew Nelson from YugaByte as guest speaker, who will share his extensive knowledge in distributed SQL databases and kubernetes deployment to the local Vancouver meetup group.

Andrew has over 20 years of technical experience in the field of cloud computing, enterprise storage, virtualization, disaster recovery and big data and has worked for several large companies such as Nutanix and Vmware.
Andrew recently joined Yugabyte as a Developer Advocate with strong focus on usability and extensibility of YugaByte DB as a data platform within the Kubernetes and public cloud ecosystem.About the Presentation
About the Presentation
Here in Vancouver, Andrew shared the 4 important stages to deploy distributed databases with Kubernetes with great emphasis on the Design stage.
- Design
- Release Management
- Operations
- Monitoring
Andrew did a fantastic job to deliver this technical presentation in a fun and interesting way by using real life references to demonstrate the 4 important stages.
He uses bricks and mortars to emphasize the importance of fundational work, the Mondadnock Building in Chicago as a building built solely by bricks to illustrate the importance of good management and operation, and finally to the empire state building in New York as a skyscraper build by bricks supported by steel frames to illustrate the importance of support and monitoring.
Overall, it is a very interesting meetup event.


Cary is a Senior Software Developer in HighGo Software Canada with 8 years of industrial experience developing innovative software solutions in C/C++ in the field of smart grid & metering prior to joining HighGo. He holds a bachelor degree in Electrical Engineering from University of British Columnbia (UBC) in Vancouver in 2012 and has extensive hands-on experience in technologies such as: Advanced Networking, Network & Data security, Smart Metering Innovations, deployment management with Docker, Software Engineering Lifecycle, scalability, authentication, cryptography, PostgreSQL & non-relational database, web services, firewalls, embedded systems, RTOS, ARM, PKI, Cisco equipment, functional and Architecture Design.
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