About
Tom in the General Manager for 2ndQuadrant in North America. He has been developing, deploying and supporting Database Systems and Enterprise Software for over 25 years. Tom had total product delivery ownership for the Progress OpenEdge platform which included a relational database deployed in thousands of systems and Enterprises all over the world. Tom was VP of Professional Services and later Vice President of products and engineering at EnterpriseDB. Responsibilities in his past include the management and maintenance of over 300 Postgres 24x7 database clusters. He has overseen the design and delivery of Postgres training solutions as well as the deployment of PostgreSQL at both Fortune 500 financial institutions and at military facilities all over the world. Teams he has managed have delivered major features that have become part of PostgreSQL. He overseen the design and and successful delivery of High Availability products for PostgreSQL and several other databases.
Tom Kincaid has presented the following presentations
Always-On with Postgres BDR (Deploying with Multi-Master)
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Postgres Conference 2020
The next generation of high availability.
presented by Tom Kincaid
This course will present the Postgres-BDR Always-On architecture. It will do an in depth review of logical replication and high availability concepts.
How to achieve maximum availability through a Postgres Multi-Master architecture will presented. Specific topics that will be covered:
1) How to achieve zero down time upgrades. 2) How to quickly (under a second) failover. 3) How to failo...
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MVCC and Tuple Freezing through Pictures.
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Postgres Conference 2020
If you have an update or insert intensive application, please join us.
presented by Tom Kincaid and Andrew Dunstan
Teams that deploy an insert or update intensive application with Postgres need to understand the topic of tuple freezing. In proper planning this important aspect of the Postgres MVCC architecture, can result in prolonged performance spike or an outage. Unfortunately, may people struggle with the concept of tuple freezing. Hence, DBAs and Developers become confused about how to design applica...
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Vacuuming through pictures
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Silicon Valley 2019
presented by Tom Kincaid and Andrew Dunstan
Proper Vacuum operations is an important function of any Postgres deployment. Vacuum is at the core of many Postgres operational items. Having a Postgres deployment properly tuned for vacuum is critical for all successful Postgres production instances.
Unfortunately, may people struggle with the concepts behind vacuum and auto-vacuum. Hence, DBAs and Developers become extremely confused abou...
more Fri 20 2019 Ops and Administration
Logical Replication and pgLogical
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Postgres Conference
use cases from Near real time upgrades to Change Data Capture
presented by Tom Kincaid
2ndQuadrant the contributors of logical encoding and logical replication to Postgres, has developed an open source extension called pglogical. This talk will cover the evolution of logical replication through out the history of Postgres and it will also cover the primary use cases of logical replication such as near real time upgrades and change data capture. It will then dive into specific f...
more Thu 21 2019 Use Cases
What's new in Postgres 11
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Silicon Valley
presented by Tom Kincaid
This is a keynote presentation as part of 2ndQuadrant's sponsorship. This presentation will cover the new and exciting features in PG11. Specific topics will be stored procedures, new Partitioning enhancements and JIT compilation. There will also be a quick look at some of the smaller features.
Mon 15 2018 Data
Postgres -- Past, Present and Future
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PostgresConf US 2018
What challenges most Postgres face in the next 5 years.
presented by Tom Kincaid
This talk will give a short history of Postgres, speaking about its origins and it's original goals. It will then discuss the reasons for the rapid growth in adoption and development it has seen over the years. Finally, it will then discuss the opportunities and challenges that Postgres faces in the next 3-5 years. Sources and illustrations from this talk, will be based on interviews from activ...
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Internet of Things with PostgreSQL - Performance & Security
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PostgresConf US 2018
An in depth look at Postgres together IOT
presented by Simon Riggs and Tom Kincaid
Gartner predicts that there will be over 21 billion connected devices in the world by 2020 [https://www.gartner.com/doc/3299317]. More than anything else, this number drives all 3 Vs of Big Data: Velocity, Volume, Variety. The Internet of Things (IoT) causes some challenges for any database system: security, resource consumption, ingestion rate, replication as well as coping with various acces...
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