Rijkswaterstaat is the Service of the Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management in the Netherlands. During this presentation, I will share our journey to develop and apply PostgreSQL at Rijkswaterstaat. Our work is ICT-driven and access to our data, both historical and actual is key for executing our task now and in the future.
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Take home message
⢠Rijkswaterstaat is data driven.
⢠So we need robust and reliable data platforms.
⢠PostgreSQL delivers that.
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Content
⢠Introduction Rijkswaterstaat and Data (movie)
⢠Take home message
⢠Rijkswaterstaat and Database Technology
⢠Rijkswaterstaat and PostgreSQL
⢠We apply it â 2 cases
⢠Next steps
⢠Some lessons
⢠Want to link?
⢠Take home message
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Rijkswaterstaat and Data
⢠Supporting our business goals
â dry feet, clean water, flowing traffic
â data for ourselves and the public (partly: open data)
⢠Prepared for the future
â circulair economy, sustainability
â autonomous driving cars and vessels
â protected for threats
⢠on information management
⢠water quality & quantity
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Rijkswaterstaat and Database technology
⢠Relational Database Management technologies
â Microsoft SQL 2008, 2012, 2016
â Oracle database 10, 11 & 12c
â PostgreSQL â open source, supported by EnterpriseDB
⢠Other database types
â GreenPlum big data â open source, supported by Pivotal
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Rijkswaterstaat and PostgreSQL
⢠The preferred building block, under architecture: open standards, open source
⢠Key features
â Internal âas a serviceâ delivery
â High availability on 2 node datacenter with server and storage
virtualization
â Geo / spatial data types (PostGIS)
â Grows (and shrinks) as needed
â Enterprise level support (EnterpiseDB)
⢠Vision, roadmap & planning
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We apply it â two cases
⢠Protide
â 'PRobabilistic TIdal window DEtermination'
â to manage ships harbouring
â database migrated to PostgreSQL building block, â2016 releaseâ
⢠PaaS Pivotal Could Foundry â open source
â for the active and perstitent data
â database to PostgreSQL building block, â2018 releaseâ starting using the
BETA release in 2017
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Next steps
⢠Follow roadmap supported components (PostgreSQL, Linux, tooling)
⢠Service definition including costing
⢠Avoid double releases of building blocks â if possible
⢠Data migration, e.g. from Oracle to PostgreSQL
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Some lessons
⢠Agile working:
â short feedback loops
â apply what has value a.s.a.p.
⢠Knowledge and resources has been an issue à constraint speed agile
development and delivery. We have some partner consultancy support
(EnterpriseDB / Nibble)
⢠Knowledge exchange with collegues, like from government SSC (DJI Gouda)
is valuable
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Want to link?
⢠Please find me for a chat at Rijkswaterstaat Delft or Rotterdam 17th floor
Jeroen de Graaff
Product Owner for Datacenter services
E-mail jeroen.de.graaff@rws.nl
Tel +31-615575082
Linkedin https://linkedin.com/in/jeroenwmdegraaff
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Take home message
⢠Rijkswaterstaat is data driven.
⢠So we need robust and reliable data platforms.
⢠PostgreSQL delivers that.