Mastering Postgres High Availability: Key Metrics and Best Practices
On-Demand
When it comes to your database, high availability isn’t just a goal—it’s a necessity.
Join us for a dynamic 35-minute webinar where industry-leading experts Petr Jelinek, VP Chief Architect, and Gianni Ciolli, Global VP Practice Lead (HA), will dive into the critical topic of database high availability.
Moderated by Angel Camacho, Director of Product Marketing (Databases), this session will explore key strategies, metrics, and best practices for ensuring your database remains available or “Always On” with Postgres even in the face of maintenance windows or unexpected outages.
Key topics include:
- Defining extreme high availability (five 9s) and the metrics that matter most.
- Why Postgres is the most reliable database option.
- Proven strategies for enhancing database availability, including managing both planned and unplanned downtime.
- Understanding the difference between high availability and disaster recovery.
- Real-world success stories and common pitfalls to avoid when planning for Postgres database high availability.
Petr Jelinek
VP Chief Architect
Petr Jelinek is VP and Chief Architect of Postgres Distributed and EDB. He has been working on Postgres replication and HA for over 15 years across multiple companies including EDB, 2ndQuadrant, Microsoft and Skype. He is a Major Contributor to PostgreSQL, who amongst other things wrote the builtin logical replication.
Gianni Cioli
Global VP Practice Lead (HA)
Gianni is a well-known PostgreSQL consultant with a successful track record of enterprise deployments globally. He is also a respected speaker and trainer, having presented at various PostgreSQL conferences for the past 15 years, and an active member of the open-source community since the 1990s. He is a PostgreSQL contributor and the author of several editions of the PostgreSQL Administration Cookbook. He holds a Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Florence.
Angel Camacho (moderator)
Director of Product Marketing, Database
Angel is the Director of Product Marketing for Databases at EDB. He attended De La Salle University in Mexico City and obtained his degree in Cybernetics and Computer Systems Engineering. After moving to California, he got his MBA from SFSU and a certificate in Data Science from UC Berkeley.
Angel has worked in various technical and marketing leadership roles in iconic companies such as Sun Microsystems, Cloudera, Aerospike, and Redis. He loves seeing customers adopt technologies to build data-oriented applications. Now, he is helping drive the message for EDB Postgres AI in all its formats and delivery vehicles, including on-premises, Kubernetes, and Cloud services.
