Re: dba designer consulting needed
Mike I hope you find a local person who can do the job. If you need to get in touch, please do. Kind Regards Robin St.Clair PS I wouldn't mind an excuse to be in Melbourne first week in November On 15/08/2014 14:37, Mike Dewhirst wrote: Robin Thanks for responding ... I have a couple of local people to see and I expect to engage one of them. If that doesn't work out may I get back in touch with you? Thanks Mike On 15/08/2014 3:21 PM, Robin wrote: Mike Firstly, I must say how nice it is to see somebody being concerned to get the data model correct, it happens less and less frequently, these days. Whilst it is important to have a DBA onboard, I must point out that i have met few DBAs who have the necessary abstraction skills do do the design job single handed. Somebody who is used to switching between logical and physical design, with a view to creating the most efficient and cost effective design rarely spends much time working as a DBA. If you were to consider a consultant from outside Melbourne, I would be interested in offering my services. I have extensive experience in various industries including Healthcare, Telecoms, Banking, Primary Industries and Transportation. Several of the projects I have undertaken involved database tuning and optimisation. One that springs to mind involved a process that provisioned only 7 customers' mobile phones a second when the work orders were arriving at the rate of 76 per second. Fortunately, six weeks later we had eliminated the backlog and the system could comfortably handle all foreseeable demand, which was considerable. I have attached my CV, in case you are interested. Presently I am based in Britain. Communications should not be a problem, I have a fibre broadband connection as I work from home on the South Coast, about an hour from Heathrow. Skype works pretty well for me and I have VoIP available, so phoning and video conferencing should work from my end. i would be most interested to learn further about your project. Kind Regards Robin St.Clair On 15/08/2014 05:19, Mike Dewhirst wrote: I'm looking for a DBA designer in Melbourne for some paid consulting. I have a Django 1.6 prototype system working nicely with Postgres 9.1. But it was designed as a proof-of-concept rather than a production system. I figured the project wouldn't actually get off the ground without funding and then I'd be able to hire someone to get serious about design perfection. In particular, distributed database versus monolithic and optional integration of external systems by some users plus parts which are shared among all users. Well, it didn't work out the way I planned. Funding is still a way off and now I have people who want to use the prototype. The consulting task is to determine if the design can be tweaked so it can be put into production. And if so, to so tweak it. If I can't find someone in Melbourne I'll consider a remote consultant but I think the conversation bandwidth required would make remote less than ideal. Thanks for any sympathy Cheers Mike -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/BLU436-SMTP14088D9DC32611EF68A40E2E2E90%40phx.gbl. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: dba designer consulting needed
Robin Thanks for responding ... I have a couple of local people to see and I expect to engage one of them. If that doesn't work out may I get back in touch with you? Thanks Mike On 15/08/2014 3:21 PM, Robin wrote: Mike Firstly, I must say how nice it is to see somebody being concerned to get the data model correct, it happens less and less frequently, these days. Whilst it is important to have a DBA onboard, I must point out that i have met few DBAs who have the necessary abstraction skills do do the design job single handed. Somebody who is used to switching between logical and physical design, with a view to creating the most efficient and cost effective design rarely spends much time working as a DBA. If you were to consider a consultant from outside Melbourne, I would be interested in offering my services. I have extensive experience in various industries including Healthcare, Telecoms, Banking, Primary Industries and Transportation. Several of the projects I have undertaken involved database tuning and optimisation. One that springs to mind involved a process that provisioned only 7 customers' mobile phones a second when the work orders were arriving at the rate of 76 per second. Fortunately, six weeks later we had eliminated the backlog and the system could comfortably handle all foreseeable demand, which was considerable. I have attached my CV, in case you are interested. Presently I am based in Britain. Communications should not be a problem, I have a fibre broadband connection as I work from home on the South Coast, about an hour from Heathrow. Skype works pretty well for me and I have VoIP available, so phoning and video conferencing should work from my end. i would be most interested to learn further about your project. Kind Regards Robin St.Clair On 15/08/2014 05:19, Mike Dewhirst wrote: I'm looking for a DBA designer in Melbourne for some paid consulting. I have a Django 1.6 prototype system working nicely with Postgres 9.1. But it was designed as a proof-of-concept rather than a production system. I figured the project wouldn't actually get off the ground without funding and then I'd be able to hire someone to get serious about design perfection. In particular, distributed database versus monolithic and optional integration of external systems by some users plus parts which are shared among all users. Well, it didn't work out the way I planned. Funding is still a way off and now I have people who want to use the prototype. The consulting task is to determine if the design can be tweaked so it can be put into production. And if so, to so tweak it. If I can't find someone in Melbourne I'll consider a remote consultant but I think the conversation bandwidth required would make remote less than ideal. Thanks for any sympathy Cheers Mike -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/53EE0D0C.5070400%40dewhirst.com.au. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
dba designer consulting needed
I'm looking for a DBA designer in Melbourne for some paid consulting. I have a Django 1.6 prototype system working nicely with Postgres 9.1. But it was designed as a proof-of-concept rather than a production system. I figured the project wouldn't actually get off the ground without funding and then I'd be able to hire someone to get serious about design perfection. In particular, distributed database versus monolithic and optional integration of external systems by some users plus parts which are shared among all users. Well, it didn't work out the way I planned. Funding is still a way off and now I have people who want to use the prototype. The consulting task is to determine if the design can be tweaked so it can be put into production. And if so, to so tweak it. If I can't find someone in Melbourne I'll consider a remote consultant but I think the conversation bandwidth required would make remote less than ideal. Thanks for any sympathy Cheers Mike -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/53ED8A54.8080001%40dewhirst.com.au. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
