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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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Marco (author) is probably asleep at this point and could give a deeper perspective. He sort of hits on this when talking about disk latency... Depending on your setup and well just from some personal…
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I think a bit of confusion on Fly Postgres vs. the Supabase offering. The earlier was unmanaged on Fly infra. I'm not sure the full details on supabase as it's more recent. This is a pretty …
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I don't think that's correct at all. Heroku Postgres has a central control plane that is monitoring availability and orchestrating things. There are continual health checks that go back to H…
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I love the "this guy" piece... Meanwhile he's been the most public person in academia talking about databases over at least the last 5 years, maybe the last 10. He's not only done …
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This is a common source of confusion for a ton of folks. Anyone can submit a patch, but commit bits are reserved for a much smaller list. The attitude is something like you commit it, you maintain it–…
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I disagree on this. Yes it's C. But I've heard people comment "I don't like writing C, but I don't mind Postgres C". The bigger hurdle which Peter mentioned in another th…
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So many thoughts on this. The community has definitely ebbed and flowed, on this for a while. A few varying pieces of insight with no intention other than to share a bit more on the PG community. And …
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Just coming to say hi Paul! I recall you being very excited and getting the email after you submitted your first patch and loved it. I think a ton of the current set of "next generation" cam…