OmniTI's staff have been busy teaching--and learning from--their peers again this year. An active conference schedule has kept them on the road, around the world.
PGEast was a great experience, as always, and OmniTI's Robert Treat and Theo Schlossnagle presented to attendees. Schlossnagle talked about using Esper to identify problems in real-time data. Treat presented "The Essential PostgreSQL.conf 9" and "Advanced WAL File Management with OmniPTIR"; hosted the Postgres in the Cloud panel; and gave the tutorial, Pro Postgres 9.
The large amount of Postgres usage in New York has been a widely held secret for many years, so it was nice to finally get to see this community come out of it's shell. As a frequent visitor to the city, I was happy to help out as much as I could with the conference, and met some amazing people while there. Kudos to the New York tech scene and the PG East crew for bringing it all together.
~ Robert Treat
In April, CEO Schlossnagle traveled to Moscow to talk about running high performance web caches and asynchronous queuing systems with the Russian Internet Technology Community.
In addition, he keynoted the Professional IT Community Conference in New Jersey this year.
May found Theo back in Europe where he spoke about decoupled systems at the What's Next, Paris event. The biggest Java event ever organized in France. It was an interesting event. . .
I would never have known this was the inaugural event. The topics, the staff, the venue, the audience and the speakers were all presented with seasoned excellence. Zeneka really understands a solid path for Java developer maturity and showed it through a spectacularly curated conference. I’m very pleased I could contribute something valuable.
~ Theo Schlossnagle
Meanwhile, Treat presented at PGCon in Ottawa, talking to attendees about OmniPITR and presenting, "Database Scalability Patterns, Sharding for Unlimited Growth."
At Velocity in June, Schlossnagle gave a plenary speech on Career Development and presented on actionable web performance for Ops, while Treat presented, "Managing Databases in a DevOps Environment."
I tried to shake things up a bit. With an opening plenary, you’re not sure if everyone is completely awake yet. Sure development and operations learn from each other, but cohesive organizations are much more than that. People at Velocity get that.
~ Theo Schlossnagle
Leon Fayer, OmniTI's VP of Business Development (and long-time web architect) participated in a panel on the current state and future of Content Management Systems, and presented a case study, at the Inbound Marketing Summit in San Francisco and gave a radio interview on the RSSRay show on designing websites that sell.
A busy Spring travel schedule didn't keep OmniTI from working with new and existing clients on projects such as:
--consulting on monitoring and trending solutions that will scale with rapid growth for Tumblr
--doing systems/architecture design consulting work, assisting with the design of a new application and the design of a new, multi-datacenter infrastructure for Chryon
--enhancements to current applications and user interface for National Geographic Expeditions.
Amidst the client work, open source collaboration and educational outreach, we're looking forward to producing Surge 2011, the scalability and performance conference, now in its second year. Registration is now open, so reserve your seat today.