Iovation

ACT-W (Advancing the Careers of Tech Women) Career Advance is designed to share tangible job search skills for women and allies in technology. We partner with local technology companies to provide interview tips, resume coaching, professional headshot photos and introduce you to hiring managers. Whether you are simply curious about technology careers or looking for a senior role, Career Advance will help you grow your career in an inclusive environment.

Join us on November 14th from 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm at iovation. iovation develops software to help companies fight fraud and ensure their customers have a seamless experience. They are currently hiring for roles in engineering, information technology, sales, marketing and more. Please join us for an evening to learn more about iovation and to visit many career advancement themed tables that are listed below:

Interview Tips Resume Tips Headshot Photography Service Reliability Engineering Roles Security Analyst Roles Marketing Roles Sales Roles

Agenda

5:30-6:00 Networking 6:00-6:15 Welcome from ACT-W and Iovation 6:15-7:30 Rotation to different Career Advance tables including: Service Reliability Engineering Roles, Security Analyst Roles, Marketing Roles, Sales Roles, Interview Tips, Resume Tips, Headshot Photography.

Please make sure you have read and agree to the ACT-W Code of Conduct!

FAQs

Who should attend? People of all genders interested in learning job skills in technology! Men, nonbinary people, trans people, and women are all welcome.

Is the event 21+? No, minors are welcome to attend.

Is the venue ADA accessible? Yes, elevators are located in the lobby.

Are there gender-neutral bathrooms? Yes, they are located in the hallway.

Stored procedure support is coming to PostgreSQL 11. Come hear about what a stored procedure is and how it differs from the existing user-defined functions.

Presented by: Dr. Kristin Tufte

This talk will describe work in Smart Cities in the Portland region. We’ll begin with the framework and motivation for the Smart Cities work and the question What is a Smart City? We’ll discuss Portland’s approach to Smart Cities, provide some historical context and then give an overview of ongoing Smart Cities projects including work on AV policy, the Portland Urban Data Lake, new sensors and earthquake resilience. The goal of the talk is to give the audience an overview of the work being done in Portland to bring a human face to data and technology and to inspire question and discussion.

Dr. Tufte is actively involved in Portland’s Smart Cities work and was the data lead on the City of Portland’s Smart Cities proposal. Dr. Tufte has collaborated closely with transportation agencies in the Portland-Vancouver area for the past ten years and directs PORTAL — the regional transportation data archive. Dr. Tufte is a member of the Transportation Research Board’s Urban Data Committee, co-chairing its Urban Big Data subcommittee and Portland Global Cities Team Challenge Action Cluster. Dr. Tufte has a PhD in Database Management from the University of Wisconsin - Madison. Dr. Tufte’s passion is using data and technology to change people’s lives, especially those in traditionally underserved communities.

Ahoy database folk! Time for another meetup and more container chit chat. Yeah yeah, you, like me, have heard that you shouldn’t run databases in containers. Well without throwing all caution to the wind, I’m hoping to show you guys some container workflows with Postgres that I’ve been using lately. We’ll talk a bit about why you haven’t been running databases in containers, then walk through some development work flows with Postgres, and lastly look at options for deploying and running persistent databases in containers.

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Hi, its me Grant Holly. I work at Iovation on the data science and analytics team wrangling our data into visualizations and machine learning models. I live in SE, play in bands, and am a learning machine.

Want automated high availability PostgreSQL without relying on someone else's cloud service? It's possible today, and easier than you think; we just need a little container orchestration pixiedust, and your DBAs can take the weekend off.

Josh Berkus will explain the current state of HA Postgres services on Kubernetes/OpenShift, introducing the several projects in this area, and then going into a deep dive on Patroni/Spilo. He'll bring you up to date on the new "Kube-native" Patroni, and work expected in the future. With live demos!

Josh Berkus helps manage the Kubernetes community for Red Hat. He is a "hacker emeritus" for PostgreSQL. He lives in NE Portland with a large black cat, a pottery studio, and a librarian.

Portland Postgres Users Group See website for details.

Portland Postgres Users Group See website for details.

Portland Postgres Users Group See website for details.

Portland Postgres Users Group See website for details.

This month we're having an introduction to PostGIS!

Portland Postgres Users Group See website for details.

Portland Postgres Users Group See website for details.

Portland Postgres Users Group See website for details.

Portland Postgres Users Group See website for details.

Portland Postgres Users Group See website for details.

Portland Postgres Users Group See website for details.

Portland Postgres Users Group See website for details.

Portland Postgres Users Group See website for details.

Portland Postgres Users Group See website for details.

Portland Postgres Users Group See website for details.

Portland Postgres Users Group See website for details.

Portland Postgres Users Group See website for details.

Portland Postgres Users Group See website for details.

Portland Postgres Users Group See website for details.

Portland Postgres Users Group

In this presentation we will grapple with the un-joinable itself, and see if we may not join it after all. The presentation explores the record linking problem (entity resolution) in the context of PostgreSQL. This problem generally arises when you have multiple data sources (or duplicates) without a reliable key to resolve multiple records to the same entity. First the problem is explored, then a general approach to developing a solution is presented, and finally there will be some pro tips.

Note that for this particular meeting, we will meet on the ground floor Board Room instead of the Iovation offices.

When: 6-8pm Thu Feb 19, 2015
Where: Iovation
Who: David Kerr
What: Using Bucardo to Migrate your Pg database to RDS with minimal downtime

As a followup to January’s RDS discussion, Dave Kerr works through strategies to move your existing Postgres database into RDS.

Using Bucardo and Master/Master Replication we can achieve a migration to RDS with minimal or no downtime.

Dave will show some tools and techniques so help facilitate this transition as well as go over the idiosyncrasies of using Bucardo with RDS.

When: 6-8pm Thu Jan 15, 2015 Where: Iovation Who: Gabrielle Roth What: RDS Postgres

Amazon integrated Postgres into their general Relational Database Services (RDS) offerings July 1, 2014. RDS offers automatic failover, scalability, and easy configuration, plus Amazon handles all the patching and upgrades for you! Their SDK supports many languages and includes a robust CLI, if you want to automate management of your deployments. They also support several popular Postgres extensions.

Of course, since it’s a managed service, you can’t do everything you might expect or want to. In this talk, I’ll discuss the fun, the quirky, and the downright maddening features I’ve discovered working with production RDS deployments. Come find out what it’s like to use RDS Postgres day-to-day.

The building is on the Green & Yellow Max lines. Underground bike parking is available in the parking garage; outdoors all around the block in the usual spots.

We’ll go to Huber’s for after-meeting socializing.

See you there!

See website for details.

What: PgOpen Recap (gabrielle, Mark, John M); New Relic Instrumentation of Pg Queries (Andrew)

Please note the new earlier meeting time! We’ll try this over the winter.

Two topics this month: PgOpen attendees will discuss highlights of that conference, and Andrew will talk about some New Relic-y stuff.

Our meeting will be held at Iovation, on the 32nd floor of the US Bancorp Tower at 111 SW 5th (5th & Oak). It’s right on the Green & Yellow Max lines. Underground bike parking is available in the parking garage; outdoors all around the block in the usual spots. No bikes in the office, sorry!

Elevators open at 5:45 and building security closes access to the floor at 6:30.

Come join an amazing group for happy hour at iovation! Be sure to find Amber Pham, Manager of Information Security at iovation. Read our newsletter for more fun facts about her; it's a great conversation starter!

PDX Women in Tech exists to celebrate professional women in the Portland-metro area who work with, manage, lead or have an interest in technology. Whether you are developing event-driven, non-blocking applications in node.js or setting technology strategy for a Fortune 500 company–or anything in between–come join us!

Portland Postgres Users Group. See link for details.

When: 7-9pm Thu Sep 18, 2014 Where: Iovation Who: Jay Riddle What: Using Postgresql to enable Google like Search

Jay’s been experimenting with Pg’s full text search capabilities. At our next meeting, he’ll cover the following: * Brief intro on why Google like search capabilities are fun. * Introduce Postgresql full text abilities. Discuss at a high level why a full text index may be a bit heavier than a normal index. * Look at possible solutions for use cases where the data you want to index is spread across multiple columns and multiple tables.

Jay Riddle is a database administrator at Viewpoint software.

Our meeting will be held at Iovation, on the 32nd floor of the US Bancorp Tower at 111 SW 5th (5th & Oak). It’s right on the Green & Yellow Max lines. Underground bike parking is available in the parking garage; outdoors all around the block in the usual spots. No bikes in the office, sorry!

Elevators open at 6:45 and building security closes access to the floor at 7:30.

The building is on the Green & Yellow Max lines. Underground bike parking is available in the parking garage; outdoors all around the block in the usual spots.

See you there!

Portland Postgres Users Group. See link for details.

Portland Postgres Users Group. See link for details.

Portland Postgres Users Group. See link for details.

Portland Postgres Users Group. See link for details.

Portland Postgres Users Group. See link for details.

Portland Postgres Users Group. See link for details.

Portland Postgres Users Group. See link for details.

Portland Postgres Users Group. See link for details.

See link for details.

The focus of this meeting will be the local users of Cassandra. In an effort to 'bootstrap' the group there will be a presentation of some of the ways iovation uses Cassandra in our various tests. Please come with additional thoughts about ways you might want to see your user group shape itself.

See link for details.

See link for details.

See link for details.

See link for details.

Autovacuum’s like a Roomba, right? You just turn it on and it does all the work for you. Well, not quite – for one, your pets can’t ride around on it – and occasionally it may get stuck in a (figurative) corner. In this talk, we’ll discuss vacuum, analyze, and their daemonic counterparts: how to adjust them to perform appropriately*, and perhaps more importantly, what the heck are they actually doing?

This is a beginner-to-intermediate level talk, but you will learn something new about vacuuming, regardless.** –

Gabrielle Roth is a consultant with EnterpriseDB. She specializes in network, database, and system monitoring, as well as abusing SQL.

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After-meeting beer location: Huber’s, the oldest bar in Portland. See you there!

See PDXPUG blog (linked) for details.

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Sqitch information is at http://sqitch.org/

See PDXPUG blog (linked) for details.

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See PDXPUG blog (linked) for details.

See PDXPUG blog (linked) for details. Also, "beware the Ides of March", &c.

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See PDXPUG blog (linked) for details.

When: 7-9pm Thu Oct 20, 2011 Where: Iovation Who: Brent Dombrowski What: Upgrading PostGIS from 8.something to 9.0

See PDXPUG blog (linked) for details.