Chris Sinjakli

Site Reliability Engineer at GoCardless

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Chris enjoys all the weird bits of computing that fall between building software users love and running distributed systems reliably.

All his programs are made from organic, hand-picked, artisanal keypresses.

Lessons Learned the Hard Way: Postgres in Production at GoCardless

presented by Chris Sinjakli

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From the beginning, GoCardless has used Postgres for the stuff that matters. It’s the primary store behind our payments API. After 5 years, it’s fair to say we’ve seen some things. From spikes in latency as resources run out, through the weird contortions ORMs put your database through, and on to the perils of running a high-availability cluster - this talk has it all. In the talk, we’ll run th...
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