Marco Slot

Principal Engineer at Citus Data

About

Marco is a principal engineer at Citus Data where he works on Citus, an extension for scaling out PostgreSQL tables across many servers. Previously he worked as a software engineer on Amazon CloudFront and Route 53 for several years, and has an MSc in Parallel and Distributed Computer Systems from VU University Amsterdam and a PhD on cooperative self-driving cars from Trinity College Dublin.

Marco Slot has presented the following presentations

    Marco Slot Distributing queries the Citus way at PostgresConf US 2018
    Fast and lazy

    presented by Marco Slot

    Citus is a sharding extension for postgres that can efficiently distribute a wide range of SQL queries. It uses postgres' planner hook to transparently intercept and plan queries on "distributed" tables. Citus then executes the queries in parallel across many servers, in a way that delegates most of the heavy lifting back to postgres.

    Within Citus, we distinguish between several types of SQL...

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    Fri 20 2018 Postgres Internals