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Gaining Confidence in PostgreSQL as an App Developer – November 18 Meetup
On November 18, the Illinois Prairie PostgreSQL User Group will host our final meetup of 2025 featuring Jay Miller, Staff Developer Advocate at Aiven and a prominent voice in developer education and community engagement. This talk brings a fresh perspective to a challenge many application developers face but rarely admit—fear of the database layer. In this presentation Jay explores the emotional and technical barriers that keep developers at arm’s length from PostgreSQL. As more applications integrate AI and data-driven features, developers can no longer treat the database as a mysterious black box. Through his experience building a vibe-coded application, Jay…
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October 15: Long Queries and the Art of Full Scan
Speaker: Hettie Dombrovskaya Database Architect at DRWHoldings Abstract: Even long-running analytical queries can and should be optimized—ignoring them early leads to severe performance degradation as data scales. This session focuses on building efficient reports proactively to prevent future bottlenecks and ensure consistent performance. Slides: Long-Queries-and-the-Art-of-Full-Scan.pptx
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Long Queries and the Art of Full Scan on October 15
On October 15, the Illinois Prairie PostgreSQL User Group will host a special meetup with Henrietta “Hettie” Dombrovskaya, Database Architect at DRW and longtime PostgreSQL community leader. This session is a sneak preview of her new talk that she will present later this month at PG Conf EU in Riga. Hettie’s presentation, “Long Queries and the Art of Full Scan,” explores a common but often overlooked challenge: analytical queries that grow slower as data volumes increase. While it’s tempting to dismiss infrequently run reports as unimportant, ignoring performance can turn a query that once took minutes into one that drags…
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