Sanketh Balakrishna
Engineering Manager at Datadog
Sanketh Balakrishna is an Engineering Manager for the Data Replication & Search teams at Datadog. He manages teams that provide a platform for multiple Product teams at Datadog to easily and reliably replicate data to secondary systems and quickly search their Data. Prior to working at Datadog, he was an Engineer at AWS where he focussed on building a Database Migration/Replication platform for customers and had also received his Masters degree in Computer Science from Umass Amherst. When he's not working, he loves playing racket sports and traveling.
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Building Reliable & Scalable Data Replication Pipelines from Postgres on Kubernetes
Building Reliable & Scalable Data Replication Pipelines from Postgres on Kubernetes
At Datadog, we built a platform for Data Replication from Postgres to various different targets over the last two years. In doing so, we enabled a lot of product teams to quickly, safely and reliably replicate data to secondary systems to solve business problems. This talk will focus on <br /> - Why we needed a platform solution for Data Replication from Postgres <br /> - Why not just 'native...
Mar 20 2025