David Murphy

When AI tooling defaults to PostgreSQL and every new ORM ships a Postgres driver first, it is tempting to ask: should we just consolidate everything into Postgres? This talk answers that question honestly — with real architecture decisions, real migration cost analysis, and a frank look at why...

AI coding assistants are now writing queries against your production databases. They will generate an aggregation that scans a collection with 500 million documents. They will suggest a join with no index coverage. They will write a migration that destroys data if run out of order. This is not...

In this session, we will cover:Separating DB accountsUsing PrivateLink for both EC2 and RDS based systemsPlanning your Route53 designPlanning SGsUsing SessionManager to avoid VPN's and Bastions

A common and modern challenge is how you, as a DB team, can reinvent yourself and align with SLOs, SLIs, and other DevOps and SRE topics.In this talk, we will go through:Team structuringTeam culture/brandingWays of workingFocuses and goals for the teamSharing reports/data/metrics vs. security/GDPR

Our world is moving fast, and data is piling up. There was a time when DBA managed a few machines, then a few hundred, and now each DBA needs to handle thousands. To enable this, we are going to talk about how we used to monitor, then how SRE has changed the rules. We will also cover why your...