Hamid Akhtar
Engineering Lead - PostgreSQL at Percona
Hamid has more than two decades of professional software development experience and has been involved with PostgreSQL for more than a decade now. He was part of EnterpriseDB where managed PostgreSQL official installers for Windows, Linux, and macOS. At HighGo Software, he was one of the leading PostgreSQL Architect working on multiple in-house solutions including in-memory solutions, ORC FDW, and various performance features. Hamid is currently the Engineering Lead for PostgreSQL at Percona.
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Experiencing replication conflicts is not too unfamiliar a sight. Whether one experiences replication lag, slots, locks, snapshots, tablespace issues, or other conflicts, establishing a set of best practices along with using proper observability tools will help avoid potential issues. This talk focuses on what to do and what not to in order to avoid database conflicts in streaming replication s...
Apr 8 2022
Almost every organisation that I interact with wants a high availability system for PostgreSQL. This clearly depicts an active trend toward an increase in utilising PostgreSQL for critical business applications. In some cases it is a move away from other major database systems like Oracle or even Teradata.
We are going to define the basic criteria for a high availability system, and have a q...
Nov 20 2020