From f042d8a4b8787576f4b29bdabfb983ce73d19992 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: James McDonald Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2019 22:06:16 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Update FOSDEM post --- content/posts/2019-02-04-fosdem.md | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/content/posts/2019-02-04-fosdem.md b/content/posts/2019-02-04-fosdem.md index 04a2fa1..a7d0a49 100644 --- a/content/posts/2019-02-04-fosdem.md +++ b/content/posts/2019-02-04-fosdem.md @@ -84,7 +84,17 @@ guess. ## [What's new in PostgreSQL 11](https://fosdem.org/2019/schedule/event/whats_new_in_postgresql_11/) --- Magnus Hagander -My colleague Magnus presented what's new and magical in PostgreSQL 11. +My colleague Magnus presented what's new and magical in PostgreSQL 11. Some of the ones that interested me were: + +* RANGE BETWEEN, allowing you to operate on windows in your data in ranges based on any sortable data type + +* Stored procedures, making it much easier to migrate from... other database systems which one might encounter when you need to embed transactions inside your code + +* Logical replication of TRUNCATE, which was confusing by its absence + +And of course general improvements in performance, with better use of parallelism. + +If you're a PostgreSQL user I'd suggest checking the talk out yourself to get all the details. ## [Netflix and FreeBSD](https://fosdem.org/2019/schedule/event/netflix_freebsd/) --- Jonathan Looney @@ -97,7 +107,20 @@ of people at an open source conference. There were some interesting details about the hardware Netflix use in their CDN caches and the areas they have to focus on for performance. -## Matrix France +## [Matrix in the French State](https://fosdem.org/2019/schedule/event/matrix_french_state/) --- Matthew Hodgson + +The French government were looking for a new communication tool and landed on +Matrix. This talk covered some of the design and deployment of this solution, +and the challenges involved. He also talked about the feedback into the open +source project and the improvements we can expect or access now. + +I found this talk enthralling, because I had reviewed Matrix for use as a +corporate communications tool a couple of years ago when it was much more basic, +and it was delightful to see how far they have come. Developments like easily +verifiable end-to-end encryption in this sort of tool just sound marvellous. +The improvements they have made in the development version of Riot bring it up +to par with (dare I say better than?) the major players in this field. +Definitely a project to keep an eye on. ## [Introduction to the BASIC Engine](https://fosdem.org/2019/schedule/event/basic_engine/) --- Ulrich Hecht