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Chirag Dave is a Principal Database Specialist Solutions Architect with Amazon Web Services. he maintains technical relationship with customers, making recommendations on security, cost, performance, reliability, operational efficiency and best-practice architectures.


Chirag Dave has presented the following presentations

    Chirag Dave Sami Imseih PostgreSQL Partitioning: Beyond the obvious at Postgres Conference 2024

    presented by Chirag Dave and Sami Imseih

    Partitioning divides table into smaller parts which helps in improving database performance and scalability. In PostgreSQL there not so obvious reason why you want to partition your table effectively to improve scalability, optimize the performance and management of your database.

    In this talk we will discuss Vacuuming, caching benefits, and multi-tenancy with respect to partitioning. You w...

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    Fri 19 2024 Essentials
    Chirag Dave Sami Imseih Becoming a PG_STAT_* (star) at Postgres Conference 2024

    presented by Chirag Dave and Sami Imseih

    Want to become a PostgreSQL performance monitoring star?

    Come and explore the world of the PostgreSQL Cumulative Statistics System, a.k.a. the pg_stat views, and see how this system can give you insights on critical workload activity such as visibility into I/O activity and much more that can help in real-time troubleshooting as well as proactive monitoring.

    In this talk, we will explore...

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    Thu 18 2024 Ops
    Chirag Dave Improving the security of your PostgreSQL databases using Amazon Aurora and Amazon RDS at Silicon Valley 2023

    presented by Chirag Dave

    At AWS, we like to say that security is always job #1. Since Amazon Aurora and Amazon RDS are fully managed, AWS takes care of key security tasks like patching, isolation and security, and more. Furthermore, you have access to additional features that ensure your data is securely stored and accessed. In this session, you will get an introduction to the AWS Shared Responsibility Model, our key s...

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    Fri 21 2023 AWS RDS and Aurora
    Chirag Dave Deploying Amazon RDS database for applications in Kubernetes at Silicon Valley 2023

    presented by Chirag Dave

    Kubernetes is a portable, extensible, open-source platform for managing containerized workloads and services. Using the AWS Controller for Kubernetes (ACK) interface, you are able use AWS services directly from Kubernetes. In this session, we will talk about why you would want to use ACK for Amazon RDS, show you how you can use the ACK service controller for Amazon RDS to provision and manage d...

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    Fri 21 2023 AWS RDS and Aurora
    Chirag Dave Managing extensions in RDS/Aurora at Silicon Valley 2022

    presented by Chirag Dave

    Introduction to PostgreSQL extensions available to RDS PostgreSQL and Aurora PostgreSQL. This talk will highlight the use of aws_lambda, aws_s3.table_import_from_s3 and aws_s3.query_export_to_s3

    Fri 8 2022 AWS Data Day