Hannu Valtonen
Co-founder at Aiven
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)
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Past presentations
PostgreSQL backups in the age of The Cloud
A look at the current state of PostgreSQL backup tools
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...
Mar 21 2019
Change Data Capture for a brave new world
How to sleep better knowing your changes are getting captured
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...
Apr 20 2018