Last Tuesday night, I received an award as Database Jedi Master during the Google O’Reilly Open Source Awards ceremony (photo, photo, video – start time 3:30). Of course, the award belongs to the entire Postgres community (as I mentioned in my acceptance speech), and the glass statue spent most of the week in the OSCON Postgres booth. The glass statue design is unique, with a 1 appearing from one angle in the glass, and a 0 from another angle (picture), and an infinity symbol visible from the top. The statue generated quite a bit of booth traffic from people who wanted to pick it up to study it. (If there is interest, I can bring it with me to Postgres events.)
I was certainly surprised by the award – I always felt databases, because they are software infrastructure, didn’t get enough visibility at these events, but I had gotten used to it. This year two database people received awards, myself and Brian Aker of MySQL/Drizzle, which is a good sign. Postgres seems to be on fire this year, and this is another indication of that.
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