Fusion Conference

You’re probably tired of the existential doom and/or utopian marketing speak dominating the conversation on AI. What's the real situation? Where are the current ethical problems for society? And what can we as individuals do to make the future of AI one that's more trustworthy? Hopefully by the end of this talk, you'll be able to start thinking about answers to those questions, and what you can do next.

Beckett works in technology compliance at an NGO and comes from a varied background including AI engineering, cyber security and systems safety. He is also very passionate about D&I in the tech industry.

I have experience with the extensibility of a software being its strength coming from Rails and Ruby. Many language communities have their package managers, plugins, gems, JVM, npm, and architectures these days are typically modular.

All these ecosystems have similar challenges too. Dependencies maintained by the proverbial single individual in Nebraska, lack of documentation, infrequent security patches, malicious actors...

Joining Tembo in July this year, I have ramped up my knowledge of the larger ecosystem, in no small part thanks to David Wheeler's "State of the Postgres Extensions Ecosystem" / "Extension Ecosystem Mini-Summits" work. Now I want to look at Postgres' challenges from that broader perspective again.

Before we can tackle challenges we need to truly understand what's preventing maturity, and we need to measure the work we do to make the stuff we rely on more robust. What would an annual State of the Extensions look like? I have asked different stakeholders and can't wait to share my recommendations.

Floor is the Head of Education at Tembo and an open source community advocate. She previously worked in Developer Relations roles at Aiven, Grafana Labs, and Microsoft. She's a member of Devopsdays Core and organizes the Devopsdays Amsterdam conference. She also organizes PGDay Lowlands (Amsterdam, September 13, 2024), and too many meetups too.

floord@hachyderm.io/
@DevOpsBarbie

In today's fast paced technological world, organisations are striving to deliver value to their customers faster and faster to stay ahead of their competitors. Finding the right balance between speed and quality isn't easy however, and quality is not something that can be simply "tested in" at the end of a development cycle. To be successful, quality needs to be built in continuously throughout, and that starts with firstly understanding what quality really means. To help kick start things, in this talk, Stuart will describe how through people, process, tools and culture you can start building the foundations to achieving continuous quality and really understand what quality means to your organisation and customers, along with how you can start to measure it.

Head of Quality at Capital One