Hacking Postgres and Running it Reliably in the Cloud
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🚀 Thrilled to invite you to our upcoming summer meetup “Hacking Postgres & Running it reliably in the cloud” on August 21, hosted at Yandex Hall, a public space for Armenia’s IT community by Yandex Armenia.
Andrey Borodin, team lead of open source RDBMS development at Yandex.Cloud, a Postgres hacker and contributor, will be joining us remotely to do a practical session on how you can start hacking Postgres and submit your first patch to Postgres. Maksim Dubakin, DevOps Engineer at Yandex.Cloud will be joining us in-person to speak about running PostgreSQL reliably in the cloud. Whether you’re a DevOps Engineer or you want to do your first steps in open source code contribution, this meetup is for you!
Talk 1: ”Writing a simple Postgres patch on your laptop” by Andrey Borodin
Postgres codebase is a text available to anyone. And actually it's not that hard to hack on it! In his talk, Andrey will show how to start working with Postgres core codebase. He will walk through the basic setup of Postgres development environment and together we will implement a small new feature in the big Postgres codebase.
Talk 2: "How we ensure high availability in the Managed Service for PostgreSQL” by Maksim Dubakin
This talk explores the technical architecture and strategies behind achieving high availability in a Yandex Cloud Managed Service for PostgreSQL, covering cluster design, connection management, automated failover mechanisms, and backup strategies.
🇷🇺 The language of the talks will be Russian.
Event Agenda:
6:30pm - Doors open
7pm - 7:40pm - Andrey’s speech + Q&A (remote)
7:40pm - 8:20 - Maksim’s speech + Q&A
8:20pm - 9:20pm - Networking with pizza & drinks
Event details:
đź“… August 21, 2025 @ 6:30pm
đź“ŤYandex Hall, Moskovyan Street 35, Yerevan
➡ ️ Please RSVP on Meetup if you plan to attend this event answering all the questions when registering on the Meetup.
âś… Please also complete this Google form: https://forms.gle/xE562vTdBmDZx89m7
A big thank you to our partner Yandex Hall for supporting this event!
We can’t wait to see you all there!
Emma Saroyan
Organizer, Armenia PUG 🚀
Hacking Postgres and Running it Reliably in the Cloud