About

Phillip is a software developer, entrepreneur and technology executive with several decades of enterprise software experience.

Phillip co-founded EnterpriseDB (EDB), one of the leading commercial Postgres companies, and served as Chairman for the company’s first three years. During this time EDB became a big supporter of the Postgres community, and the company developed or supported the development of many enterprise class features in Postgres.

Other companies Phillip has co-founded and/or led as CEO include webMethods, SparkPost, VisualCV and Fugue. At webMethods Phillip helped pioneer technology that we now refer to as web services and web APIs.

Phillip is currently the co-founder and CEO at pgEdge (https://www.pgEdge.com), a recently launched startup focused on fully distributed Postgres.

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Phillip Merrick has presented the following presentations

Use Cases for Multi-Master Distributed Postgres at Postgres Conference 2024

presented by Phillip Merrick
Today’s modern applications must be always on, always available, and serve a global user base that demands fast response times. A fully multi-master distributed database architecture is critical for organizations to meet these demands. In this talk, we will explore the core use cases that benefit from deploying PostgreSQL with asynchronous logical replication in a multi-region or even multi-clo...
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Wed 17 2024 Essentials