Fueling innovative software
July 15-18, 2019
Portland, OR

Humans do not have a primary key

Christophe Pettus (PostgreSQL Experts, Inc.)
1:45pm–2:25pm Wednesday, July 17, 2019
Building Data-Intensive Applications
 Location: D138-140
Secondary topics:  Data Driven
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Who is this presentation for?

  • Application designers and architects, data modeling professionals, and technical managers

Level

Beginner

Description

Applications of all types, from social media to healthcare to media, are increasingly focused on human beings and their relationships. But human beings do not lend themselves easily to being reduced to small slots. It’s increasingly important to find sensitive, legally compliant, and successful ways to incorporate data about human beings and their families, histories, and jobs into data sources.

Christophe Pettus draws on decades of experience in data modeling and application design to explore the pitfalls of bringing one’s own cultural bias to data modeling, how to successfully approach modeling humans and their relationships, and important legal compliance issues (especially now in a GDPR world).

Prerequisite knowledge

  • A basic understanding of application design and data modeling (useful but not required)

What you'll learn

  • Identify cultural biases in modeling human beings in data and common anti-patterns and pitfalls in human data modeling
  • Learn successful approaches to modeling humans and their relationships
  • Examine data privacy concerns in general and in the GDPR world
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Christophe Pettus

PostgreSQL Experts, Inc.

Christophe Pettus is the chief executive officer and lead consultant with PostgreSQL Experts, Inc. He’s been working with databases for over 30 years.