About

Jonathan S. Katz is the Director of Customer Success & Communications at Crunchy Data, a leading provider of trusted open source PostgreSQL technology, support, and training. Jonathan is also responsible for the advocacy efforts of the PostgreSQL Global Development Group, is a board member of the nonprofit United States PostgreSQL Association, and is a co-organizer of the NYC PostgreSQL User Group.

Jonathan enjoys building applications with PostgreSQL and revels in showing off all of the wonderful features of PostgreSQL. While he was CTO at VenueBook, Jonathan developed a robust platform using PostgreSQL, taking advantage of its many features, from complex data types to its ability to stream logical changes. Jonathan graduated from Tufts University with a B.S. in Computer Science and a B.A. in Mathematics.


Jonathan Katz has presented the following presentations

    Jonathan Katz Real-Time Data Streams from PostgreSQL: A Game Changer in Application Architecture at PostgresConf US 2018

    presented by Jonathan Katz

    Often in applications, it is necessary to be aware of all changes to your database in order to take additional actions. Prior to PostgreSQL 9.4, this could be accomplished with database-level triggers or hooks in your application code, but these methods have both performance and data consistency tradeoffs.

    In version 9.4, PostgreSQL introduced logical decoding, which provides an interface to...

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    Fri 20 2018 Development