'Fairwinds' is a multi-player on-line, command-line interface game that involves real-time, competitive trading on five simulated markets. Players interact with the game by using either the Postgresql psql client to enter basic SQL commands or an interactive menu system that creates and executes the SQL statements.
Players leverage the similarities and the nuanced differences between these markets and master the interplay amongst them to create wealth while striking a balance of cooperation and competition with other players to acquire wealth and to develop and maintain resources.
This talk will present an overview of the application and discuss some design and architecture issues underlying its development.
We will devote the final half of the meeting to actually playing the game, so bring your computer with wireless network connectivity and the psql client software ready to connect to a data base server.
You will want to read the "Fairwinds Overview", "Fairwinds Tutorial" and "Fairwinds SQL Pasteables" reference pages in advance available at https://github.com/bmtober/fairwinds. These documents explain how to connect to a Postgresql data base, basic use of the psql client software, and will prepare you to be a competitive player.
Note that the presentation is not simply a repeat of the tutorial. The talk will fill in and expand upon what you learn from the tutorial, so advance review is highly encouraged.
Speaker: Berend Tober has been a PostgreSQL user for over 15 years. His experience includes both private industry and federal government roles in systems modeling, network administration, software development and data base management.