Rijkswaterstaat is the Service of the Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management in the Netherlands. During this presentation, I will share our journey to develop and apply PostgreSQL at Rijkswaterstaat. Our work is ICT-driven and access to our data, both historical and actual is key for executing our task now and in the future.

1. Step-by-step
implementation
Jeroen de Graaff
PostgreSQL at
Rijkswaterstaat
12 July 2018
RWS INFORMATIE 1

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Movie – introduction Rijkswaterstaat and data
• https://youtu.be/8PdNcYu1kk8

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Some pictures – in case movie doesn’t show

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This is me. I love:
• Gold panning
• Aikido
• Nature
• Family

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Take home message
• Rijkswaterstaat is data driven.
• So we need robust and reliable data platforms.
• PostgreSQL delivers that.

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Content
• Introduction Rijkswaterstaat and Data (movie)
• Take home message
• Rijkswaterstaat and Database Technology
• Rijkswaterstaat and PostgreSQL
• We apply it – 2 cases
• Next steps
• Some lessons
• Want to link?
• Take home message

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Rijkswaterstaat and Data
• Supporting our business goals
– dry feet, clean water, flowing traffic
– data for ourselves and the public (partly: open data)
• Prepared for the future
– circulair economy, sustainability
– autonomous driving cars and vessels
– protected for threats
• on information management
• water quality & quantity

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Rijkswaterstaat and Database technology
• Relational Database Management technologies
– Microsoft SQL 2008, 2012, 2016
– Oracle database 10, 11 & 12c
– PostgreSQL – open source, supported by EnterpriseDB
• Other database types
– GreenPlum big data – open source, supported by Pivotal

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Rijkswaterstaat and PostgreSQL
• The preferred building block, under architecture: open standards, open source
• Key features
– Internal “as a service” delivery
– High availability on 2 node datacenter with server and storage
virtualization
– Geo / spatial data types (PostGIS)
– Grows (and shrinks) as needed
– Enterprise level support (EnterpiseDB)
• Vision, roadmap & planning

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We apply it – two cases
• Protide
– 'PRobabilistic TIdal window DEtermination'
– to manage ships harbouring
– database migrated to PostgreSQL building block, “2016 release”
• PaaS Pivotal Could Foundry – open source
– for the active and perstitent data
– database to PostgreSQL building block, “2018 release” starting using the
BETA release in 2017

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Next steps
• Follow roadmap supported components (PostgreSQL, Linux, tooling)
• Service definition including costing
• Avoid double releases of building blocks – if possible
• Data migration, e.g. from Oracle to PostgreSQL

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Some lessons
• Agile working:
– short feedback loops
– apply what has value a.s.a.p.
• Knowledge and resources has been an issue à constraint speed agile
development and delivery. We have some partner consultancy support
(EnterpriseDB / Nibble)
• Knowledge exchange with collegues, like from government SSC (DJI Gouda)
is valuable

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Want to link?
• Please find me for a chat at Rijkswaterstaat Delft or Rotterdam 17th floor
Jeroen de Graaff
Product Owner for Datacenter services
E-mail jeroen.de.graaff@rws.nl
Tel +31-615575082
Linkedin https://linkedin.com/in/jeroenwmdegraaff

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Take home message
• Rijkswaterstaat is data driven.
• So we need robust and reliable data platforms.
• PostgreSQL delivers that.