Slides and transcript from How much do you really need to know about databases? at EuroPython 2026 in Kraków, Poland on 15 July 2026. I will add a link to the recording once it's available. I've included just very brief alt-text for each sl…
J'ai eu le plaisir de présenter une keynote à PyCon France 2025. C’était mon premier PyCon FR et je l’ai beaucoup apprécié. J'espère avoir l'occasion de revenir. Je partage ici la version annotée de mes slides, et vous pouvez regarder l'enr…
Thank you to everyone who came to listen to my talk, "Postgres Partitioning Best Practices", at Euruko in Viana do Castelo, Portugal on 18 September 2025. Thank you for all the questions and conversations, and thank you, especially, to the
Slides and transcript from my talk, "Anatomy of a Database Operation", at DjangoCon Europe in Dublin on 25 April 2025. This talk seemed like a great idea back in December 2024 when I asked the Django community for suggestions of database to…
This post contains the slides and transcript from the talk that I gave at PyCon Italia 2024, and at EuRuKo 2024. You can also watch the video from PyCon Italia here. Your database is configured for the needs of your day-to-day application a…
We just published the PGConf.EU 2024 schedule and I couldn't be more excited to share it with everyone. We hope you love the talks we've chosen as much as we do. A lot of the work of the talk selection committee (a.k.a. program committee, C…
Instead of just sharing the slides from the keynote talk that I gave at DjangoCon Europe 2024 in Vigo this month, I'm trying a new approach, inspired by Simon Willison's annotated presentations. This post contains the slides together with t…
After the craziness of the FOSDEM weekend in Brussels (FOSDEM PGDay, and the PostgreSQL booth and Devroom at FOSDEM itself) I headed to Paris for PG Session 16 on Wednesday 7 Feb. It was great to spend the day with some of the French-speaki…
Lætitia Avrot and I co-presented "Trying to be Barbie in Ken's Mojo Dojo Casa House" at PGConf EU in Prague this week. Lætita has published the amazing, very pink slides that she created and I'm publishing the transcript here. We really hop…
It was my absolute pleasure to speak at Helvetic Ruby in Bern, Switzerland on 24 November 2023. It was a day of firsts: I enjoyed the whole experience so much that I want to tell you all about it and encourage you to add the 2024 edition to…
A lot has been going on recently and I'm waaaay behind with sharing slides and information about what I've been up to. I'm currently in Porto, having a great time meeting new people and learning new things at DjangoCon Europe. I'm presentin…
The presentation slides can be downloaded below. Please note, however, that the slides don't tell the whole story. I would usually recommend watching the recording, but unfortunately these (live, in person) talks weren't recorded. I'm very