Tonight (Monday, June 15) at IASA Denver, board member Tim Berglund will be presenting on Agile Database Development with Liquibase (see below for details).

After Tim's presentation we will have an open discussion on the challenges of achieving database agility, then adjourn to the Baker Street Pub at 8:30 for beers. Note: the first round of beers will be covered by IASA Denver!
 
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Agile Database Development With Liquibase

Your team has built a flexible, expressive, performant database schema for a new appliation that's ready to face the world—but nobody gets it right on launch day. You've got a toolbelt full of methods for managing code change, but if you aren't just as adept at managing changes to your database, it will soon become mummified, cursing your application with declining performance and ugly hacks for the rest of its life.

Or maybe you've been saddled with a legacy database that looks like it was designed by the High School DBA Club on the last day of the semester, then filled with ten years of critical business data. You can't throw it away, but you can't build the next-gen application on it either. With conventional source code control and the right set of refactoring practices, you can build an application you love from a database you'd just as soon do without.

Liquibase is an open-source tool that helps bridge the gap between database schemas and source control. Inspired by Refactoring Databases by Amber and Sadalage, it provides a well-structured and disciplined set of refactorings that can be expressed in a text file and played back repeatably against development, test, and production instances of your database. 

Speaker Bio

Tim Berglund runs a software consulting firm called the August Technology Group, which provides training and development services to customers building web applications on the JVM. His technology interests span web applications, business integration, data architecture, agile processes, and software architecture, but his greatest passion is to help developers improve in their craft. He is a frequent speaker at local user groups, and is a board member of IASA Denver and The Denver Open Source User Group (www.denveropensource.org). He loves open-source software and the rapidly diversifying world of the Java platform. He has been writing software since he was a boy, but only started brewing his own beer a few years ago. He lives in Littleton with his wife and three children who, despite being the homeschooled children of a programmer father, don't write as much code as you might think.