Pramod Sadalage
Northern Virginia Software Symposium
Reston · November 2 - 4, 2007
Co-author of "Refactoring Databases:Evolutionary Database Development"
Pramod Sadalage is the co-author of the 2007 Jolt Productivity Award winning
“Refactoring Databases: Evolutionary Database Development”, a Martin Fowler
signature series book and author of “Recipes for Continuous Database
Integration”. Pramod works as a DBA and developer at ThoughtWorks. He works on
large custom-developed applications that use agile methodologies. While on these
projects, he pioneered the practices and processes of agility in the database.
Pramod writes and speaks about these concepts and practices to help those
interested in using agile practices on databases. He has written and presented
about database administration on XP projects, the adoption of agile processes
with databases, and the impact of agile practices on database administration and
design. Pramod is the owner and founder of the agiledatabases Yahoo! group; he
moderates group discussions and helps group members learn about agile databases.
When he is not working, you can find him spending time with his wife Rupali and
daughter Arula, and trying to improve his running.
Presentations
Database Refactoring
Evolve an existing database schema a small bit at a time to improve the quality of its design without changing its semantics.
Recipies for Continuous Database Integration
is your database being tested and integrated like your application code? do you have a database integration strategy? do you have a process to upgrade your database as you make subsequent releases? Make the database part of your Continuous Integration cycle and benefit from it.