Úterý duben 08, 2008

Sun Techdays St. Petersburg

Event Last week me and my colleague Julo attended Sun Techdays in St. Petersburg. We spent three days in a booth to present PostgreSQL and JavaDB. MySQL guys had a booth next to us and we created opposite to big Oracle booth. It was big action and only acceptable place was Ice Hockey Hall. I spent over 10 hours each day to answer questions about PostgreSQL. Some people returned again next day with follow-up questions. And at the end of day I was really looking forward to fall in a bed. Small complication was a language barrier because not all attendees spoke English or their English was not so good, but together with my poor Russian knowledge we were able to talk. City I have never been in St. Petersburg. It was my first visit. I heart lot of recommendation about heritages and city downtown at all. However begin of April is not good time for visiting. There was rest of snow/ice in some places and dust from sand and salt were everywhere (rest of road protection during of winter). What I really didn't expect it was heavy traffic. Six lanes roads are common in US but they are not common in European city center. It was difficult to crossover. It seemed like new form of Russian roulette. We have only one afternoon to walk through the center and it is really not enough. I personally plan to return back in the future and spend at least one week to explore a city and museums. Sun office St. Petersburg trip was also good occasion to visit Sun office and meet with our colleagues from Sun Studio development team. I specially interested in compiler optimization and how to compile PostgreSQL for best performance. C compiler has a lot of optimization switches but not all are safe to use them in all situation. I got a lot of tips and I plan to test them soon. Thanks to Boris and Michael.

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