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craigkerstiens

32,048karma·2,512submissions·September 20, 2008
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I work at Snowflake building best in class Postgres via Crunchy Data, building Snowflake Postgres - a multi-cloud Postgres managed service. Previously I ran product at Azure Postgres, product at Citus data, and a number of product areas at Heroku.

You can find more thoughts from me: https://www.craigkerstiens.com

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Craig here from Crunchy Data. I think you're speaking to the app side of things on hobby level. On the database side of things our security posture for Crunchy Bridge I'd say is stronger tha…
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Those IPs tend to stay pretty stable and are shared across the fleet. While you should change them back once things are stable, it's reasonably likely these won't change out from under you i…
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I mean we did already ship the ability to run containers from inside Postgres so why not tackle every possible approach - https://www.crunchydata.com/blog/announcing-postgres-cont…
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Feel free to drop me a note craig.kerstiens at crunchydata and happy to have a conversation to see what options may exist.
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This is definitely our plan, we've got some follow on posts that go into much more detail on how we built it so stay tuned for those.
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Maybe give it another shot or two, it's definitely a slow process to import. We have some improvements coming there in time but it's ideal at moment for smaller schemas and datasets.
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Sorry about that, we hit some rate-limits but should be all resolved now.
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Edit: Should be all better now. Well that's embarrassing, looks like one of our underlying APIs hit a rate limit, we're working on a quick fix for it.
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Craig here from Crunchy. Pretty excited to ship this. It started with one of our engineers showing up in slack 6 weeks ago "So I did something crazy over the weekend..." from there it evolve…
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It's a different approach, planetscale and Citus are sharding that is intended to be mostly transparent. It's not 100% transparent, but both get pretty close. Neon is more of an aurora appro…
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Crunchy Data | Full-Time | Software Engineering | Remote Crunchy exists to make open source PostgreSQL the optimal choice in deployment environments. We're building the Postgres experience that d…
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This is native Postgres partitions. The only addition is pg_partman which helps with some automatic partition creation and pruning. In coming releases it is likely that partman won't be needed at…
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A really handy tool for helping to guide you in laying out column ordering is pg_column_byte_packer ( https://github.com/braintree/pg_column_byte_packer ).…
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