Andy Colvin

I have a customer that uses it pretty heavily, even with “modern” applications and software versions!

Keep it going, my friend!

I’ll also accept Bruno as a correct answer

Only thing keeping last night from going “Full Romero” would be a leg breaker after his shinner to tie it.

I've just released swingbench 2.8 (#Oracle AI Database load generator). Now with a HTML front end.

You can read all about it here

www.dominicgiles.com/swingbench/2...

Dallas’ shiny new silver line train

Feeling extremely European today as I take the new train in to work today. May seem like a small thing, but the folks in Texas don’t care much for public transit (or pedestrians for that matter)

@acolvin.bsky.social on networks and the speed of light at #POUG2025

Wow…can’t believe it took me 10 years to get to @pougorg.bsky.social but it delivered in every possible way. So great to see old friends and I haven’t learned that much at a conference in a very long time. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

It’s been a long road but so happy you’re back!

Congrats to @chandlerdba.bsky.social on your promotion!

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Woke up to some awesome news…I’ll be speaking at #POUG2025 for the first time!

All he does is win, mate!

Can’t just buy a ticket, you have to show up and sit through the matches too.

“The purchaser of a Ticket Pack **who uses all tickets to attend all matches included in their Ticket Pack** will be granted a guaranteed option to buy one ticket to a FIFA World Cup 26 match”

Oh, that would be lovely!

Last day to submit your session to the #POUG2025 conference ‼️

sessionize.com/poug-2025/

Finally submitted my abstract for @pougorg.bsky.social #POUG2025. I prefer to think that it was less about procrastination and more about constantly refining the topic in the deeper parts of my mind. #fingerscrossed

Hate to say it but I wouldn’t recommend anyone come here right now. Worried for friends here with permanent residency when the ones in charge don’t care about the law.

Chart showing student populations with largest closest to the origin #shrug

I just can’t take an institution of higher education seriously when they present a Y axis that goes from largest to smallest.

So.... @OracleCloud , @Azure , @googlecloud and @awscloud engineers walk into a bar 🤣🤣🤣

All for it, but please…nothing as scandalous as “my cat is better than any other cat.” We all know that my cat is the best in the world

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Hi, I’m Andy Colvin! You may remember me from such things like working for Enkitec and writing about Exadata. These days I’m working on all things Oracle within Google Cloud, but may post a few cat photos from time to time.