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Speakers

Aivars Kalvāns

Employers on the program

  1. 2025Ebury1 talk

Appearances by year

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  • PyCon (national Python conferences)
  • PostgreSQL Conference Europe (PGConf.EU)

Talks

DateEventConferenceRoleTitleLinks
Oct 21, 2025PGConf.EU 2025 (15th PostgreSQL Conference Europe)PostgreSQL Conference Europe (PGConf.EU)speakerEXPLAIN: make it make sense
as Ebury

Most developers know how to measure the time a database query takes and to find which one is the slowest. But what next?

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Sep 19, 2025PyCon UK 2025PyCon (national Python conferences)talkHow to solve a Python mystery

Using Linux observability tools to learn what your Python application is doing

May 28, 2025PyCon Italia 2025PyCon (national Python conferences)talkQuerySet.explain(): make it make sense.
I will help you decipher database query plans and give some rules of thumb to understand if the database is doing the best it can. We will also use query plans…Show less

I will help you decipher database query plans and give some rules of thumb to understand if the database is doing the best it can. We will also use query plans to find the best indexes for queries and I will share several anti-patterns I have seen in Django projects .

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Nov 11, 2023PyCon Ireland 2023PyCon (national Python conferences)talkPessimism, optimism, realism and Django database concurrency
Most developers know a thing or two about multi-threading and concurrent programming. But the database often is treated as a black box not behaving as we expect…Show less

Most developers know a thing or two about multi-threading and concurrent programming. But the database often is treated as a black box not behaving as we expect it to and leading to weird bugs. We will look at concurrency in the database through programming language concepts and try to...

May 25, 2023PyCon Italia 2023PyCon (national Python conferences)talkPessimism, optimism, realism and Django database concurrency

In this talk, I will look at how pessimistic, optimistic and no (explicit) locking works with relational databases and the best ways to use it from Django ORM

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Frequent co-speakers

SpeakerShared eventsShared talksLast together
Karen (Karrie) Jex3—2025
Adrin Jalali2—2025
Alessandro Molina2—2025
Alex Martelli2—2025
Anastasiia Tymoshchuk2—2025
Antonio Cuni2—2025
Dom Weldon2—2025
Duarte Carmo2—2025
Emanuele Fabbiani2—2025
Giovanni Barillari2—2025
Giuseppe Mastrandrea2—2025
Iacopo Spalletti2—2025
Jan Giacomelli2—2025
Juna Salviati2—2025
Lorenzo Barbieri2—2025

Speakers with the same name are merged into one entry, so this page may combine more than one person. Affiliations are shown as each conference listed them.