John Martin

blog.jqmartin.co.uk

John is an experienced data platform professional and principal consultant at Broch Solutions with over 15 years of experience in data platform and cloud technologies. Working with both the Azure and AWS clouds to solve data platform problems for clients for operational or analytical workloads. Throughout his career, John has learned how to get the most out of these platforms as well as the key pitfalls that should be avoided.

Previous Sessions

The Swiss Cheese Security Pattern

Understanding that there is no panacea when it comes to securing your data assets is important. We will look at how to adopt the right mindset and then build a secure architecture to minimise the risk to your data.

Introduction to Infrastructure as Code with Terraform

Join John as he introduces Terraform as a cloud agnostic management interface for taking a code first approach to cloud infrastrucutre deployments.

Making Managed Instance Perform, a dive into storage.

Moving to the cloud means that we need to take a different approach when it comes to how we design and tune databases. Managed Instance included, get the storage configuration wrong and it will not perform. We'll look at the storage options and architecture for Managed Instance before demonstrating how to get tune the storage layer to get the performance we need

In-Memory OLTP, how to use it

We have all heard about In-memory OLTP and how fast it can go, but just how do you use it? In this session we will look at how to migrate a system to use this new capability.