First Meetup

Join us for the inaugural meetup for database-makers, on October 31st. More information to come, but this is our tentative program:

Agenda:
16:00 - 16:10 Doors open
16:10 - 16:15 Introduction
16:15 - 17:00 Talk 1 (including QnA): Rohit Nayak (Vitess) - Inside Vitess: Engineering Resilience at Scale
17:00 - 17:45 Talk 2: Teresa Lopes (Adyen) - Operational hazards of managing PostgreSQL DBs over 100TB
17:45 - 18:30 Food
18:30 - 19:15 Talk 3: Fabian Groffen (Oracle)
19:15 - 20:00 Talk 4: Peter Boncz (CWI)
20:00 - 21:00 Networking

Teresa Lopes (Adyen) - Operational hazards of managing PostgreSQL DBs over 100TB

How do you backup (and restore) a +100TB database? Well, maybe you don't. In this talk I will share the singularities I encountered when managing huge PostgreSQL databases, topics like backups, high availability challenges, how to keep vacuum under control…

When reading blog articles, the best practices, the "how to" guides, things seem straightforward, but when you start bending PostgreSQL limits, you will end up needing to question the most fundamental assumptions about how PostgreSQL works.

Over the last years, my team has been exploring the boundaries of what PostgreSQL can do and today I will share our findings with you (at least the ones I can!).

Teresa has over 8 years of experience with databases, starting as an Oracle DBA before discovering her passion for PostgreSQL—drawn in by its extensibility and vibrant community. Now part of the PGDay Lowlands organizing team, she brings a unique background in civil engineering and a love for hiking, geology, and cooking.

Rohit Nayak (Vitess) - Inside Vitess: Engineering Resilience at Scale

Rohit Nayak is a software engineer with over three decades of experience in all aspects of software development especially with startups and in product development. He has been part of the core Vitess team at PlanetScale for the last six years and a Vitess Maintainer for five.