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Andrew Pruski 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇮🇪

@dbafromthecold.com
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Principal Field Solutions Architect @ Pure Storage Microsoft Data Platform MVP and Docker Captain I help organise EightKB and Data Céilí He/Him

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Andrew Pruski 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇮🇪 @dbafromthecold.com · 09/06/2026
Summer in Dublin!
Picture of a balcony covered in hail
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Andrew Pruski 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇮🇪 @dbafromthecold.com · 28/05/2026
Kube-PacMan...a KubeInvaders inspired Chaos Enginnering tool to test high availability in Kubernetes!
Pac-Man being used as a chaos engineering tool to test high availability in Kubernetes
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Andrew Pruski 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇮🇪 @dbafromthecold.com · 25/04/2026
Final day @sqlbits.bsky.social Come join me at 10am in Room 1A where we'll be talking about New Features in SQL Server 2025 (That aren't AI 😂) #sqlbits
Statue of the Welsh dragon
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Andrew Pruski 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇮🇪 @dbafromthecold.com · 07/03/2026
Still adding to the stickers
Picture of laptop covered in conference stickers
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Andrew Pruski 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇮🇪 @dbafromthecold.com · 27/02/2026
Woooooooooooo!
Picture of an Irish passport
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Andrew Pruski 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇮🇪 @dbafromthecold.com · 13/01/2026
What theme is everyone using for SSMS 22? I like mystical forest :-)
Screenshot of SQL Server Management Studio with the green "Mystical Forest" theme
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Andrew Pruski 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇮🇪 @dbafromthecold.com · 12/01/2026
I'm getting on a plane
McDonalds sign post advertising a limited time offer of $79.95 for 200 chicken mcnuggets
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Andrew Pruski 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇮🇪 @dbafromthecold.com · 12/10/2025
Not a bad evening here
Photo of Croagh Patrick with a sunset behind it
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Andrew Pruski 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇮🇪 @dbafromthecold.com · 18/09/2025
Oh this is gonna be good
The finish line of the track at the world 2025 athletics championships in Tokyo National Stadium
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Andrew Pruski 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇮🇪 @dbafromthecold.com · 18/09/2025
Took me a while here in Japan but... what must be done shall be done
Photo of a burrito on a plate in a Mexican restaurant in Tokyo
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Andrew Pruski 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇮🇪 @dbafromthecold.com · 13/09/2025
Ah yeah, found my way back
Front of an Irish pub in Kyoto
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Andrew Pruski 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇮🇪 @dbafromthecold.com · 13/09/2025
Think we took a wrong turn somewhere, this doesnt look like County Mayo
Bamboo forest in Kyoto
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Andrew Pruski 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇮🇪 @dbafromthecold.com · 04/09/2025
Cool shot of me speaking @shipitcon.bsky.social last week on Chaos Engineering. Massive thank you to the organisers and volunteers....was a great conference and I hope to be back!
Andrew Pruski speaking on stage at ShipItCon 2025 on Chaos Engineering
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Andrew Pruski 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇮🇪 @dbafromthecold.com · 04/09/2025
Yeeeeeaaaaahhh!
Hollow Knight: Silksong art work
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Andrew Pruski 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇮🇪 @dbafromthecold.com · 28/08/2025
Burrito Bot update! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Screenshot of the new Burrito Bot UI
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Andrew Pruski 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇮🇪 @dbafromthecold.com · 09/05/2025
Hmmm
Honestly, I dont know. Statue of a weird yellow guy?
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Andrew Pruski 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇮🇪 @dbafromthecold.com · 08/05/2025
Ahhhh
Irish pub in New York
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Andrew Pruski 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇮🇪 @dbafromthecold.com · 24/04/2025
Hey we're seeing some IO warnings on this server
Farside comic of a man looking at a crashed stool on the ground with a piano about to fall on him
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Andrew Pruski 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇮🇪 @dbafromthecold.com · 20/04/2025
This should be good
The snooker tables being setup for the evening Sunday session at the world championship
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Andrew Pruski 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇮🇪 @dbafromthecold.com · 18/04/2025
Say what you want about me but leave Tina out of it! 😀
Calico cat sitting on a table on a balcony
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Andrew Pruski 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇮🇪 @dbafromthecold.com · 04/04/2025
Don't do it Andrew...
Image of a box containing cargo socks (pockets on the side)
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Andrew Pruski 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇮🇪 @dbafromthecold.com · 28/03/2025
100% recommend
Photo of Mexican food restaurant's sign
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Andrew Pruski 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇮🇪 @dbafromthecold.com · 25/03/2025
I have a feeling that this isn't quite right
Screen shot of kubernetes cluster status in Docker Desktop showing age of 55 years
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Andrew Pruski 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇮🇪 @dbafromthecold.com · 14/02/2025
Double sigh
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Andrew Pruski 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇮🇪 @dbafromthecold.com · 25/01/2025
Me working from home
Hyacinth from Keeping Up Appearances saying, "Now, what shall I wear to answer the telephone?"
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Andrew Pruski 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇮🇪 @dbafromthecold.com · 24/01/2025
Holy crap
Map of Ireland showing all the power outages, there's a lot!
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Andrew Pruski 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇮🇪 @dbafromthecold.com · 19/01/2025
Name's Bond. James Bond. And you are?
Sign in Asda showing biscuits, cheese biscuits
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Andrew Pruski 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇮🇪 @dbafromthecold.com · 15/01/2025
HAHAHAHAHAHA...no
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Andrew Pruski 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇮🇪 @dbafromthecold.com · 12/01/2025
Sitting here on the sofa ignoring all the work I should be doing
Sarah's scribbles comic showing a train marked as "deadline" hurtling towards the character who is ignoring it
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Andrew Pruski 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇮🇪 @dbafromthecold.com · 11/01/2025
Should probably go right...ahhh, how bad could left be?
Sign pointing left to labyrinth
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Andrew Pruski 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇮🇪 @dbafromthecold.com · 08/01/2025
Really pleased to be in the top 3% of speakers on Sessionize for 2024! sessionize.com/andrew-pruski/
Sessionize badge showing Andrew Pruski is in the top 3% of speakers for 2024
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Andrew Pruski 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇮🇪 @dbafromthecold.com · 28/12/2024
🤣🤣🤣
4 panel comic showing two cats saying they love each other but in the last panel one of the cats decides to hit the other one
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Andrew Pruski 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇮🇪 @dbafromthecold.com · 12/12/2024
OK, what the hell?
Image of SQL Server Management Studio showing connections to localhost and 127.0.0.1 with different databases
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Andrew Pruski 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇮🇪 @dbafromthecold.com · 12/12/2024
Cool new feature in Kubernetes v1.32 kubernetes.io/blog/2024/12...
Screenshot of the volume group snapshot feature in Kubernetes v1.32
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Andrew Pruski 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇮🇪 @dbafromthecold.com · 11/12/2024
I aspire to this level of comfort
Tortie cat curled up on blanket
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Andrew Pruski 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇮🇪 @dbafromthecold.com · 10/12/2024
Everyone, I present the Burrito Bot...a chatbot for providing burrito recommendations in Dublin 🤣
Screenshot of a really badly built ChatBot that returns information about burrito restaurants in Dublin
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Andrew Pruski 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇮🇪 @dbafromthecold.com · 21/11/2024
And we're off with the final VMUG Ireland event of the year!
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Andrew Pruski 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇮🇪 @dbafromthecold.com · 20/11/2024
This game is driving me nuts!
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Andrew Pruski 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇮🇪 @dbafromthecold.com · 19/11/2024
Yep
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Andrew Pruski 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇮🇪 @dbafromthecold.com · 17/11/2024
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Andrew Pruski 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇮🇪 @dbafromthecold.com · 17/11/2024
Don't judge me
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Andrew Pruski 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇮🇪 @dbafromthecold.com · 16/11/2024
Hi new followers! Just want to mention that half my tweets, err, posts, are going to be about tech I find interesting and the other half are going to be nonsense like this...
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Andrew Pruski 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇮🇪 @dbafromthecold.com · 14/11/2024
Alright, let's see what this is like!
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