About

Hannu Valtonen is the maintainer of the PostgreSQL extension pgmemcache, replication/failover monitor pglookout and the PostgreSQL backup daemon PGHoard. For the last decade his day job's have revolved around developing very large scale distributed systems.

In 2010 he co-founded the boutique software consulting firm Ohmu Ltd and since 2015 he's been actively working on next generation cloud database services at Aiven. (https://aiven.io)


Hannu Valtonen has presented the following presentations

    Hannu Valtonen PostgreSQL backups in the age of The Cloud at Postgres Conference
    A look at the current state of PostgreSQL backup tools

    presented by Hannu Valtonen

    As data amounts have grown, the requirements for backup software have changed greatly over time.

    As your cloud VM is not your father's personal computer neither are these modern PostgreSQL backup daemons the same as your forefathers backup tools.

    In this presentation I'll go through some of the current crop of popular cloud enabled PostgreSQL backup daemons to see how they've evolved to f...

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    Thu 21 2019 Ops and Administration
    Hannu Valtonen Change Data Capture for a brave new world at PostgresConf US 2018
    How to sleep better knowing your changes are getting captured

    presented by Hannu Valtonen

    Now that you've stored your data in the database you're done with it, right? No.

    Typically storing data into your database is only the beginning of its journey through your company's systems.

    There's often a need to act on the data: from providing the service the customer actually wanted to sending emails to doing complex data analytics. PostgreSQL's logical replication features have mad...

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    Fri 20 2018 Data