Marc Linster
SVP, Products and Services at EnterpriseDB
Before joining EnterpriseDB, I spent 4 years at Polycom, the leading maker of video communications equipment, focusing on the Services Supply Chain, Business Intelligence, Customer Data Management and Cloud Solutions. Prior to Polycom, I lead a supply chain consulting and systems integration company working with customers in the US, Canada, France, Germany and Switzerland. I have an extensive background in management, business consulting, systems integration, data management and business intelligence. I hold a Ph.D. (Dr. rer. nat) in Computer Sciences from the University of Kaiserslautern in Germany.
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Past presentations
EnterpriseDB Keynote
The future of Postgres in a multi-cloud world
Deployment options that match your cloud Postgres needs
Postgres has won the race. It is the undisputed leader of relational databases for new and modern applications. This presentation will reflect on how customers take advantage of this new situation, how they deal with the complexity, and how they take advantage of Postgres as the universal data platform that is available in containers, in every cloud, in every data centre and on every developer ...
Run Postgres Natively on Kubernetes
Easily deploy, scale, upgrade, and reconfigure Postgres clusters running in Kubernetes
Deploying Postgres on Kubernetes to achieve a highly available, monitored and robust environment, is challenging, it requires domain knowledge most developers don’t have. One way to reduce the complexity is to use a Kubernetes Operator, which manages custom resources such as Postgres to simplify the database life cycle. Using the EDB Postgres Operator, developers can easily deploy, scale, upgra...
Scalable Replication For Postgres
Create a highly available and geographically distributed Postgres infrastructures
Join Marc Linster (Senior Vice President of Product Development) and Zahid Iqbal to learn how EDB Replication Server uses Kafka and Zookeeper to create a highly scalable replication infrastructure. During this breakout session, presenters will highlight how EDB Postgres Replication Server (EPRS) can be used to create a highly available and geographically distributed Postgres infrastructures.
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A Look at the Global Economic Impact of Postgres
Postgres Takes Charge Around the World Behind Strength of Open Source Community
Presenter: Marc Linster - Senior Vice President of Product Development, EnterpriseDB
Abstract: Perspective on the global economic impact of Postgres development and how the ecosystem investing in core Postgres technology is fueling Postgres longevity and paving the way for its dominance.
The broad expansion of Postgres into enterprises has led to increasingly robust Postgres skills of DBA...
Mar 20 2019
The success of PostgreSQL supporting enterprise workloads has put the spotlight on where PostgreSQL development is headed next. Advances in recent releases have expanded the database’s ability to support new data types and unstructured data as data professionals wrestle with bigger and more complex data loads. Analysts are predicting a strong future for open source in the enterprise while compa...
This talk will review and summarize lessons learned from several years of providing 7X24 support for Postgres implementations, from dozens of migration assessments and from several years worth of Postgres architectural health checks. The talk identifies common problems that our customers have encountered and attempts to identify recommendations and best practices to improve adoption of Postgres...
The talk will discuss how Postgres, the leading open source relational database, is positioned as the centerpiece of a pivot from traditional architectures to a micro-services based approach that is in full support of a DevOps motion.
The talk will touch on how Postgres meets the key requirements of being developer friendly, supporting the process with a versatile data model using JSONB, in...