In the spirit of fun and creativity, we offer this whimsical view of operations excellence. No matter what holidays you observe—or if you observe none at all—we hope this season brings you time for bonding, joy, and repose. Happy holidays from the Postgres Conference team.
Let's talk about the greatest operations professional of all time: Santa Claus.
Think about it. Every December 24th, Santa executes a global deployment with a one-night SLA. Zero downtime tolerance. No rollback option. The whole world is watching, and failure is not an option. His operations credentials are impeccable:
Global Distribution Network. Billions of deliveries across every time zone in a single maintenance window. Try explaining that SLA to your stakeholders.
Real-Time Monitoring. He sees you when you're sleeping. He knows when you're awake. Santa's observability game is unmatched. He knows if you've been bad or good—that's behavioral analytics at scale.
Massive Database Management. The naughty/nice list is a production database with billions of records, updated continuously throughout the year. Annual refresh cycle. No data loss. Ever.
Failover Systems. Remember when the weather nearly took down Christmas? Rudolph wasn't just a reindeer with a shiny nose. Rudolph was a failover solution implemented under pressure. That's incident response.
Capacity Planning. Cookies and milk at every stop. Presents for every child. Sleigh weight distribution. Santa doesn't wing it. Santa has a plan.
Workforce Management. Elves are working year-round across multiple workshops. Reindeer training programs. Quality assurance on every toy. That's operational excellence.
The Ops Track at Postgres Conference: 2026
If Santa ran PostgreSQL, he'd be attending—or presenting at—the Ops track.
The Ops track at Postgres Conference: 2026 is for everyone managing PostgreSQL in production. You'll learn from practitioners sharing hard-won operational wisdom. Topics include:
- Deployment strategies and automation
- Monitoring and observability
- Performance tuning
- Backup and recovery
- High availability and replication
- Capacity planning
- Security hardening
- Automation and orchestration
- Managing PostgreSQL at scale
Postgres Conference 2025 Ops Track Highlights
Listen or watch sessions from the Postgres Conference 2025: Ops Track on YouTube.
Register for Postgres Conference: 2026
Postgres Conference: 2026 takes place April 21-23 in San Jose, California. The theme is Energizing People with Data and Creativity. Nothing says creativity like keeping production databases running smoothly under pressure.
Early bird registration is available now! Purchase your General Admission tickets here.
Call for Postgres Conference 2026 Speakers & Trainers
Want to share your expertise? If you like managing PostgreSQL in production and can help others learn from your operational experience, we want to hear from you. The CFP is open across all tracks. Share what you've learned.
CFP closes January 30, 2026. Submit here.