Jignesh Shah
Software Development Manager at Amazon Web Services
Jignesh Shah is Senior Software Development Manager for Amazon RDS with Amazon Web Services. At AWS, he works on PostgreSQL engines including Amazon RDS PostgreSQL managed database service. He has worked with PostgreSQL and open-source PostgreSQL community since 2005. He has released application and database lifecycle products using PostgreSQL at appOrbit and VMware. He is an active member of the PostgreSQL community for a long time publishing a first standards accepted benchmark using PostgreSQL when he was at Sun Microsystems. His interests are in Cloud technologies involving Operating Systems, Containers and Databases.
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Developers love open source databases because they help enable innovation, collaboration, and the creation of technologies that solve today’s and tomorrow’s problems. As we at AWS have ramped up our collaboration with open source communities, like PostgreSQL, we have seen how open source innovations improve the experience of our customers and the broader community. This keynote highlights how A...
Apr 17 2024
Postgres major version upgrades require planning. In this topic we look under the hood on how PostgreSQL major version upgrades can be upgraded with minimum downtime and then go over the operational best practices of doing these upgrades at scale with 100s to 1000s of databases.
Apr 17 2024
Bringing developers and Postgres closer together
AWS Keynote
Postgres is commonly referred to one of the most loved databases by developers, but why is that? Let's explore what Postgres has done to earn that reputation. We’ll also look into the future of what needs to happen for Postgres to retain that love as developers’ needs evolve.
Apr 20 2023
Upgrading databases can be a painful process that is time consuming and require significant coordination or even downtime. However, upgrades are important because they enhance your database with the latest security patches, performance features, and more. In this session, we will discuss how PostgreSQL upgrades happen in Amazon RDS and the best strategies to plan for your next upgrade. We will ...
Apr 20 2023
In this session we will look at examples building your own custom PostgreSQL extensions using the new Trusted Language Extensions and deploy it in a cloud environment. Trusted Language Extensions for PostgreSQL is an open source development kit for building PostgreSQL extensions. It allows you to use multiple languages to build high performance PostgreSQL extensions and even safely run them on ...
Apr 20 2023
Tips and Tricks with Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL
"I did not know you can do that!"
Managed database services are popular for many PostgreSQL users. In this session we look at how best to configure Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL and also look at common user operations of PostgreSQL using Amazon RDS. We will also look beyond common user operations and into some specific optimizations related to upgrade, logical replication, performance, and reducing downtime.
Nov 20 2020
The topic of upgrading PostgreSQL databases is a popular. In this session we look under the hood on how upgrades work in Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL. We will look at some common practices and making sure your upgrade experience is as joyful as this PostgreSQL conference in Manhattan.
PostgreSQL is designed to be easily extensible. For this reason, extensions loaded into the database can function just like features that are built in. In this session, we will learn more about PostgreSQL extension framework, how are they built, look at some popular extensions, management of these extensions in your deployments.
PostgreSQL is designed to be easily extensible. For this reason, extensions loaded into the database can function just like features that are built in. In this session, we will learn more about PostgreSQL extension framework, how are they built, look at some popular extensions, management of these extensions in your deployments.
Sep 19 2019
Managed database services are gaining in popularity. In this session we look at how best to configure Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL and also look at common user operations of using RDS for PostgreSQL. We will also look beyond common user operations and into some specific optimizations related to upgrade, logical replication, performance, and reducing downtime.
Oct 16 2018
Best Practices with Managed PostgreSQL in the Cloud
Learn about using a managed PostgreSQL Service
More companies are now providing managed PostgreSQL services. We look at some basic features of managed PostgreSQL services in the cloud. Understanding such services allow us to better use these services for our applications. We also look at typical best practices for the normal DBA activities on these managed services.
Nov 14 2017
Lot of applications and databases are now getting containerized. In this talk we will look at highly available deployments of PostgreSQL using containers. We will discuss various issues that were encountered and how they were resolved.
In this training session we will be combining an extended deep dive on Amazon Relational Database Service along with a hands on lab using Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL and AWS DM. As part of the deep dive we will cover the unique features of Amazon RDS for improved availability and durability. In addition, you will get hands on experience creating an Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL for high availability ...
In this session we will deep dive into the exciting features of Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL, including new versions of PostgreSQL releases, new extensions, larger instances. We will also show benchmarks of new RDS instance types, and their value proposition. We will also look at how high availability and read scaling works on RDS PostgreSQL. We will also explore lessons we have learned managing a...
Apr 20 2018