Phil Vacca

Greater Milwaukee Area United States

Data Driven Devops in a Containerized World

Technology / Software / Internet

The line between systems and code is increasingly blurred; and the best practices of coders - testable, elegant code, backed up in source control - are now becoming the best practices of whole Production systems. This sort of thinking is called DevOps, and it's changing everything that happens in an organization. Whenever I have a choice in new development, I use PostgreSQL - the world's most advanced open-source database. You'd probably guess that I write a lot of SQL, and you'd be correct. I am also a huge fan of Python, IronPython, R, MDX, and Powershell, and use each of them often! I've designed dashboards with fun tools like QlikView, and less fun, though certainly more powerful, ER...