Floor Drees articles - 61 total
Celebrating all contributions to the PostgreSQL project
Every contribution to the PostgreSQL project counts, big and small, the glamorous and the tedious....
Building a karaoke recommendation system with PostgreSQL
Boriss Mejías and I presented a lightning talk at FOSDEM PGDay, last Friday. Below is the script,...
Mastodon & the PostgreSQL community
In the Postgres community the adoption of Mastodon has been significant. Curious whether Mastodon...
Summarizing Community over Code EU 2024
I helped organize Community over Code EU, June 3-5, in Bratislava, Slovakia. On the actual conference...
That's a nice Postgres you have there, would be a shame if you were to lose it…
To my delight the PgDay Paris 2024 organizers decided to pick my lighting talk despite the ominous...
What the flip is DevEx - live panel
"If your team has developers, you have a Developer Experience." Whether or not that experience is...
pgDay Paris: no notes!
Or... yes notes, but not on the event itself. I learned a LOT about how the Postgres project is...
Build license management into your pipelines
Below is more or less my FOSS Backstage (lightning) talk, titled "Build license management into your...
My very personal summary of Configmanagement Camp
Configmanagement Camp (CfgMgmtCamp for short, or YAML Camp), takes place after FOSDEM unless it’s...
A not so short summary of FOSDEM
I love FOSDEM. And I loved being back in-person again this year, at the ULB in Brussels, together...
What I learned about leading a healthy project from speaking to 50+ maintainers
At FOSDEM this year I gave a talk about contributing.today, a live streamed fireside chat on anything...
Software Supply Chain and Data Infrastructure Security - 5 lessons from AllDayDevOps 2022
Why is it that we’re seeing the term “Software Supply Chain Security” so frequently? The usage of...
Big Data Europe 2022 - my summary
November 23-24, Big Data Conference Europe took place, all virtual, 2000+ attendees, 40+ talks, and 4...
DevRelCon 2022 - a very biased review
It’s only been a few days since I returned home from DevRelCon in Prague. The last time I attended...
Best of GitHub Universe 2022 - or so I opine
November 9-10, GitHub Universe took place, GitHub’s annual product announcements filled flagship...
Choose Your Own Adventure: Open source, proprietary software, self-hosted or managed
We’re among friends here, so I think I can say this: proprietary software is expensive, static,...
Developer Advocates need to be better event citizens
This post is the result of frustration built up over the recent years, around how some Developer...
Howto: The Technical Panel
You’ve been asked to join a panel at a technical event. Great news: panels are fun! It might not seem...
June contributing.today: on supporting open source projects with monies
I try to make a habit of writing summaries for our contributing.today meetups. For background, read...
May contributing.today: on technical documentation, docs tools and markup languages 📖
I try to make a habit of writing summaries for our contributing.today meetups. For background, read...
April contributing.today: on Open Source Databases
I’ll try and make a habit of writing summaries for our contributing.today meetups. For background,...
What even is an Open Source Program Office - with Spotify, Aiven & Wipro
Suzanne Daniels, Nick Trogh and I just rebooted our contributing.today meetup. The three of us met...
Feedback and hiring a diverse team, at the DevOps Eindhoven meetup
In anticipation of the October Devopsdays Eindhoven, we thought we should, well, meet up. Who are we?...
Community health metrics in Grafana w/ Orbit data source
In a previous post I wrote how my colleague Daniel Gonzales Lopes and I worked out how to get GitHub...
What 3rd party events are interesting for my DevRel organisation?
What's when you're tasked to create a list of 3rd party events you want (your DevRel organization) to...
GitHub integration for Orbit for anyone with multiple communities
Orbit is "mission control for your community", a single, shared view of members and activity. For...
User-informed load tests
June this year I joined k6. A week later I heard that we were being acquired by Grafana Labs. I was...
How do we get sponsors to support our tech event?
I was happy to find that people found my previous post, on how to make the best out of your tech...
How to make the most out of sponsoring an event
I've been sitting on this one for a while, having been both a sponsor supporter for tech events, as...
CONTRIBUTING: Eddie Jaoude
Leading up to (and during) the month of October, we want to help you discover open source projects t...