Redgate is sponsoring Agile West this year, and the marketing team asked me to give a talk on database DevOps technologies.

I have a keynote talk, called Don’t Forget the Database, that I’ll be delivering on Wednesday. This covers some of the challenges of why the database is harder than software, but doesn’t need to be. I show some demos of zero downtime deployments as a part of this talk.

Likely I’ll record the demo and talk over it, as I have seen that technique work well and it keeps me from fumbling around.

My wife is coming with me. This is a quick Tues-Thur trip for me, and easy. Las Vegas is about an hour flight for me, and I only have a few commitments, so this is a chance for the two of us to see a show or two and get out of town for a short break.

I’m lucky that some of my business travel allows my wife to come around, and it’s worth the expense to bring her and make the trip more enjoyable. That makes it easy for me to handle the 20-30 trips a year I make.

If you’re at the show, stop by the Redgate booth or my talk and say hi.