Greetings, data enthusiasts!

Our July meeting is scheduled for Monday, July 14th, at 5:30 pm! We will meet in person at: Rensselaer Chamber of Commerce, 90 4th Street, Troy, NY.

Please RSVP here if you are attending, so we can purchase an appropriate amount of food for everyone. Food will be ordered from K-Plate. For this meeting, we are welcoming David Asher, an author and longtime veteran in tech.

Our meeting schedule is as follows:

• 5:30 PM: Food, soft drinks, and networking
• 6:15 PM: Chapter news and announcements
• 6:30 PM: Presentation

We usually wrap up between 7:30 PM and 8:00 PM.

David will be presenting: Coming in Cold – Managing a database team having no database expertise: Common sense suggests that a manager should know something about the thing they are managing, no? I was asked recently to take over a team that owns the databases for the fast growing cloud storage provider, Wasabi, and found myself in the midst of pivotal decisions that will determine if the company can evolve its technology to enable order-of-magnitude scaling and new business opportunities. The lessons about how to manage the team, how to manage up, and how to make these technical decisions should be helpful to many others facing challenges with their database technology. Spoiler: I didn’t have to write a line of SQL.