About

Jignesh Shah is Senior Software Development Manager for Amazon RDS with Amazon Web Services. At AWS, he works on PostgreSQL engines including Amazon RDS PostgreSQL managed database service. He has worked with PostgreSQL and open-source PostgreSQL community since 2005. He has released application and database lifecycle products using PostgreSQL at appOrbit and VMware. He is an active member of the PostgreSQL community for a long time publishing a first standards accepted benchmark using PostgreSQL when he was at Sun Microsystems. His interests are in Cloud technologies involving Operating Systems, Containers and Databases.


Jignesh Shah has presented the following presentations

    Jignesh Shah Innovating for all with PostgreSQL at AWS at Postgres Conference 2024

    presented by Jignesh Shah

    Developers love open source databases because they help enable innovation, collaboration, and the creation of technologies that solve today’s and tomorrow’s problems. As we at AWS have ramped up our collaboration with open source communities, like PostgreSQL, we have seen how open source innovations improve the experience of our customers and the broader community. This keynote highlights how A...

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    Wed 17 2024
    Jignesh Shah Managing at scale Postgres version upgrades with minimum downtime at Postgres Conference 2024

    presented by Jignesh Shah

    Postgres major version upgrades require planning. In this topic we look under the hood on how PostgreSQL major version upgrades can be upgraded with minimum downtime and then go over the operational best practices of doing these upgrades at scale with 100s to 1000s of databases.

    Wed 17 2024 Ops
    Jignesh Shah Bringing developers and Postgres closer together at Silicon Valley 2023
    AWS Keynote

    presented by Jignesh Shah

    Postgres is commonly referred to one of the most loved databases by developers, but why is that? Let's explore what Postgres has done to earn that reputation. We’ll also look into the future of what needs to happen for Postgres to retain that love as developers’ needs evolve.

    Thu 20 2023 AWS RDS and Aurora
    Jignesh Shah Taking anxiety out of PostgreSQL upgrades in Amazon RDS at Silicon Valley 2023

    presented by Jignesh Shah

    Upgrading databases can be a painful process that is time consuming and require significant coordination or even downtime. However, upgrades are important because they enhance your database with the latest security patches, performance features, and more. In this session, we will discuss how PostgreSQL upgrades happen in Amazon RDS and the best strategies to plan for your next upgrade. We will ...

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    Thu 20 2023 AWS RDS and Aurora
    Jignesh Shah Developing PostgreSQL extensions using Trusted Language Extensions at Silicon Valley 2023

    presented by Jignesh Shah

    In this session we will look at examples building your own custom PostgreSQL extensions using the new Trusted Language Extensions and deploy it in a cloud environment. Trusted Language Extensions for PostgreSQL is an open source development kit for building PostgreSQL extensions. It allows you to use multiple languages to build high performance PostgreSQL extensions and even safely run them on ...

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    Thu 20 2023 Dev
    Jignesh Shah Tips and Tricks with Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL at CHINA 2020 And PGConf.Asia 2020
    "I did not know you can do that!"

    presented by Jignesh Shah

    Managed database services are popular for many PostgreSQL users. In this session we look at how best to configure Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL and also look at common user operations of PostgreSQL using Amazon RDS. We will also look beyond common user operations and into some specific optimizations related to upgrade, logical replication, performance, and reducing downtime.

    Fri 20 2020 Cloud
    Jignesh Shah Upgrading your Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL databases at Postgres Conference 2020

    presented by Jignesh Shah

    The topic of upgrading PostgreSQL databases is a popular. In this session we look under the hood on how upgrades work in Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL. We will look at some common practices and making sure your upgrade experience is as joyful as this PostgreSQL conference in Manhattan.

    Ops and Administration
    Jignesh Shah PostgreSQL Extensions: A Deeper Look at Postgres Conference 2020

    presented by Jignesh Shah

    PostgreSQL is designed to be easily extensible. For this reason, extensions loaded into the database can function just like features that are built in. In this session, we will learn more about PostgreSQL extension framework, how are they built, look at some popular extensions, management of these extensions in your deployments.

    Ops and Administration
    Jignesh Shah PostgreSQL Extensions: at Silicon Valley 2019

    presented by Jignesh Shah

    PostgreSQL is designed to be easily extensible. For this reason, extensions loaded into the database can function just like features that are built in. In this session, we will learn more about PostgreSQL extension framework, how are they built, look at some popular extensions, management of these extensions in your deployments.

    Thu 19 2019 Dev
    Jignesh Shah Tips and Tricks with Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL at Silicon Valley

    presented by Jignesh Shah

    Managed database services are gaining in popularity. In this session we look at how best to configure Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL and also look at common user operations of using RDS for PostgreSQL. We will also look beyond common user operations and into some specific optimizations related to upgrade, logical replication, performance, and reducing downtime.

    Tue 16 2018 Ops
    Jignesh Shah Best Practices with Managed PostgreSQL in the Cloud at PGConf Local: Seattle [PgConf.US]
    Learn about using a managed PostgreSQL Service

    presented by Jignesh Shah

    More companies are now providing managed PostgreSQL services. We look at some basic features of managed PostgreSQL services in the cloud. Understanding such services allow us to better use these services for our applications. We also look at typical best practices for the normal DBA activities on these managed services.

    Tue 14 2017 AWS / Cloud
    Jignesh Shah PostgreSQL High Availability in a Containerized World at PGConf US 2017 [PgConf.US]

    presented by Jignesh Shah


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    Lot of applications and databases are now getting containerized. In this talk we will look at highly available deployments of PostgreSQL using containers. We will discuss various issues that were encountered and how they were resolved.

    Operations
    Jignesh Shah Jeremy Schneider Abhinav Singh ramya kaushik Amazon Relational Database Service for PostgreSQL and AWS Database Migration Service Training at PostgresConf US 2018

    presented by Jignesh Shah, Jeremy Schneider, Abhinav Singh, and ramya kaushik

    In this training session we will be combining an extended deep dive on Amazon Relational Database Service along with a hands on lab using Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL and AWS DM. As part of the deep dive we will cover the unique features of Amazon RDS for improved availability and durability. In addition, you will get hands on experience creating an Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL for high availability ...

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    Jignesh Shah Deep Dive into the RDS PostgreSQL Universe at PostgresConf US 2018

    presented by Jignesh Shah

    In this session we will deep dive into the exciting features of Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL, including new versions of PostgreSQL releases, new extensions, larger instances. We will also show benchmarks of new RDS instance types, and their value proposition. We will also look at how high availability and read scaling works on RDS PostgreSQL. We will also explore lessons we have learned managing a...

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    Fri 20 2018 Cloud