Database Refactoring Workshop
Take one ugly legacy schema, a toolbox full of simple database refactorings, and a world-class schema refactoring tool, and you've got 90 minutes of workshop that will equip you to bring a culture of database responsibility to your team.
In this workshop, we'll start with a live schema in need of some help, and slowly improve it in a controlled fashion using Liquibase. We'll see how to create and alter tables, add constraints, drop columns, control changes in stored procedures, and more. You should come away with a solid understanding of how to use the tool and how to integrate it into your team's development, build, and deployment processes.
Attendees should already have a conversational understanding of Liquibase, or have attended Scripting the Schema with Liquibase session. Please bring a laptop or be prepared to pair with a friend.
About Tim Berglund
Tim is a full-stack generalist and passionate teacher who loves coding, presenting, and working with people. He believes the best developer is one who is well-informed of specifics and can also make deep connections between software development and the broader world. He has recently been exploring non-relational data stores, continuous deployment, and how software architecture should resemble an ant colony.
His firm, the August Technology Group, helps clients with product development, technology consulting, and technology upgrade projects atop the JVM. The August Group's technology preferences reflect the generalist sensibilities of its founder, and its development practices are always lightweight, self-improving, and humanizing by design.
Tim is a speaker internationally and on the No Fluff Just Stuff tour in the United States, and is co-president of the Denver Open Source User Group in the Denver area, co-author of the DZone Clojure RefCard, co-presenter of the best-selling O'Reilly Git Master Class, co-author of Building and Testing with Gradle, and a member of the O'Reilly Expert Network.
He lives in Littleton, CO with the wife of his youth and their three children.
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