I gave a tutorial at PGCon a couple weeks back, entitled “Agile Database Development with Git, Sqitch, and pgTAP.” It went well, I think. The Keynote document and an exported PDF have been posted on PGCon.org, and also uploaded here and to Speaker Deck. And embedded below, too. Want to follow along? Clone the tutorial Git repository and follow along. Here’s the teaser:

Hi, I’m David. I like to write database apps. Just as much as I like to write web apps. (Maybe more!) How? Not by relying on bolted-on, half-baked database integration tools like migrations, I’ll tell you that!. Instead, I make extensive use of best-of-breed tools for source control (Git), database unit testing (pgTAP), and database change management and deployment (Sqitch). If you’d like to get as much pleasure out of database development as you do application development, join me for this tutorial. We’ll develop a sample application using the processes and tools I’ve come to depend on, and you’ll find out whether they might work for you. Either way, I promise it will at least be an amusing use of your time.

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