Brad Urani
Staff EngineerProcore
Brad Urani is a coder, karaoke singer and barbecue evangelist. He believes happiness is directly correlated with the size of your .vimrc and refuses to buy into YAGNI. When not hiking or hacking, he preaches the wonders of databases as Staff Engineer at Procore in Santa Barbara, CA
Talks I've Given
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Elixir's Ecto: Functional-Relational Data Access Done Right
Featuring Brad Urani
Relational databases provide a challenge for functional programmers: they're inherently mutable, but they're still the best choice for many applications due to their guarantees and performance. Fortunately, functional languages like Elixir - and the frameworks built around them - are re-inventing...
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My 5 Biggest Database Blunders
Featuring Brad Urani
We've all made mistakes. With databases, mistakes are particularly costly because they lead to performance bottlenecks, deployment disasters, lost data and intractable technical debt. Join us and learn from my mistakes. You'll hear harrowing tales of schema design blunders that were never...
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