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Software engineer and PostgreSQL user with responsibility of delivering high quality software that solves real-life problems. 10+ years of experience in IT working with Java and SQL datastores.


Michał Gutkowski has presented the following presentations

    Michał Gutkowski Rafał Hawrylak How did Postgres become best-fit for TomTom Maps? at Postgres Conference 2020

    presented by Michał Gutkowski and Rafał Hawrylak

    Co-speaker: Rafal Hawrylak

    Maps are key ingredient of location services. TomTom has built its map-making system with trust in Postgres and it features like: ACID compliance, well known reliability and high performance. Streaming replication allows scalability and thanks to open source licence you can host a Postgres database anywhere: on your laptop, in local data-center or in the public cl...

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    Michał Gutkowski Rafał Hawrylak Using Grafana and Prometheus for PostgreSQL monitoring in TomTom at Postgres Conference
    Introduction to the tools and best practices from 3 years in production environment

    presented by Rafał Hawrylak and Michał Gutkowski

    Every production system needs monitoring. Things get interesting when there are hundreds of PostgreSQL instances with automated cloud deployments. There are multiple solutions for collecting PostgreSQL metrics. Grafana is a popular choice for visualization and analytics of time series data. Prometheus is a convenient tool to collect and store metrics of multiple PostgreSQL instances. Alertman...

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    Wed 20 2019 Ops and Administration