Postgres Talks
VIXULCON| PostgreSQL Customisation at Scale
Umair Shahid conducted a session focused on PostgreSQL customization at scale. He explored AI-amplified database expertise, key design trade-offs, and practical approaches to building, monitoring, and operating tailored PostgreSQL deployments efficiently.
SRECON | Designing Layered High‑Availability Architectures for PostgreSQL on a Budget
Umair Shahid conducted a session focused on building cost-effective high availability for PostgreSQL. He looked at layered replication strategies, real-world trade-offs, and discussed practical approaches to meeting uptime and recovery goals within budget.
FOSSASIA Summit 2025 | Petabyte-scale Log management in Postgres using Bagger
Chris Travers delivered a talk covering the origins, capabilities, and current status of the open source project Bagger for scalable log management. He explored key design decisions, big data approaches with PostgreSQL, and how to think about large-scale workloads.
Virtual Meetup | PostgreSQL 101 – Can I Use Open Source Safely for Mission-Critical Data?
Umair Shahid conducted a session focused on introducing PostgreSQL as a reliable technology for mission critical data. He will look at its features, examples of successful production uses, and discuss specific use cases that the audience is considering.
Talk | History and Modern Applications: The Rise of Postgres | VixulCon, Austin
Umair Shahid, delivered an Innovation Talk at VixulCon 2024, explaining why you should care about Postgres. He traced Postgres’ journey from a university research project to becoming the world’s most popular database, surpassing MySQL by 2023, and highlighted its growing relevance in modern applications, including AI.
Talk | PostgreSQL Performance for Application Developers | PGDay 2024, Ankara
Umair Shahid gave this session in PGDay, Ankara and talked about rhw practical strategies, best practices, and optimization techniques tailored specifically for developers working with PostgreSQL databases.
Talk | SCaLE Pasadena | PostgreSQL Performance for App Developers – Because there is no Magic Button | SCaLE, Pasadena
This talk by Umair Shahid, given in SCaLE 21x, focuses on such instances in order to guide developers of a few key items to be mindful of when designing and scaling applications using PostgreSQL.
Talk | Clustering in PostgreSQL: Because one database server is never enough (and neither is two) | FOSDEM, Brussels
Umair Shahid spoke at FOSDEM 2024 where he delved into the ins and outs of PostgreSQL clustering. He covered the benefits and challenges of various clustering approaches and explained how to set up a highly available and disaster-resilient PostgreSQL cluster.
Talk: Scaling PostgreSQL – A Developer’s Guide
In this talk, Umair Shahid (Founder, Stormatics) talks about query optimization and performance features. He explains how to optimize your PostgreSQL databases as your application scales.
Fireside Chat: JSON in PostgreSQL – A Developer’s Perspective
Learn how JSON in PostgreSQL simplifies unstructured data handling for devs, offering features like binary storage, indexing, & native functions. Get valuable advice for leveraging this functionality in application development.
Talk: Data Resilience in PostgreSQL
Umair Shahid (Founder, Stormatics) delves into PostgreSQL clustering for high availability and disaster recovery. covering synchronous vs. asynchronous replication and effective cluster management tools.
Talk: Why Database Teams Need Crew Resource Management
Chris Travers (Senior PostgreSQL Consultant at Stormatics) explains how database teams suffer the same problems as flight crews and medical teams – and why database teams need crew resource management.