PgConf.Russia 2016 talks

Heroku Postgres: architecture of a cloud database service


Heroku

In addition to providing a general purpose web platform, Heroku has a large, supporting Postgres service. Over the years, we've learned a lot about running Postgres at scale.
In this talk, we'll cover:

  • why Postgres is attractive to run as a cloud service
  • how to provision, manage, and monitor a Postgres fleet
  • tradeoffs needed to make Postgres work in this environment
  • automating failure recovery
  • and more

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