As part of the countdown to PostgresConf US 2018, learn more about the engaging content and our speakers for this year in our Speaker Spotlight Series.
Jignesh Shah is Product Manager for Amazon RDS with Amazon Web Services. At AWS he works on PostgreSQL engines at AWS including Amazon RDS PostgreSQL and Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL compatibility. He has worked with PostgreSQL since 2005 and has released application and database lifecycle products using PostgreSQL at appOrbit and VMware.
Jignesh will be co-presenting the full day "Amazon Relational Database Service for PostgreSQL and AWS Database Migration Service Training" on April 17 at 9 am, as well as the "Deep Dive into the RDS PostgreSQL Universe" session on Friday, April 20 at 9:50 am.
Read what he has to say about Postgres and why to attend his session:
Why PostgreSQL?
Features, Open Source, License!
Tell us about your involvement with the greater Postgres community.
Involved since 2004ish. Early part focussed more on performance on high end servers. (Performance bottlenecks, working to resolve them in standard PostgreSQL) Lately more as an advocate.
What new features of PostgreSQL 10 are you most excited about?
Pub/Sub Logical Replication
What features should be developed/improved and released in the next major upgrade?
CALL Procedure (multi-transaction), SQL Packages
Why should attendees come to your talk at PostgresConf US 2018? What would you like for them to take away from your session?
Learn about the features in Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL and how best to leverage them!
What sessions are you most excited about attending at PostgresConf US 2018?
Keynotes!, Tutorials (Aurora, DMS), Customer sessions!
What is your favorite aspect of PostgresConf US?
Meeting the user community of PostgreSQL
What advice would you have for a Computer Science graduate or entry level developer who are interested in learning and engaging with Postgres?
Start with the use cases. Learn how PostgreSQL supports these use cases. Dive deeper on why PostgreSQL solves them in that particular way!
Check out the full schedule for PostgresConf US 2018, and buy your tickets soon!