"img": "cybertec.png",
"description": "Founded in 2000, CYBERTEC was one of the first companies worldwide to specialize entirely in PostgreSQL. As our main aim is to be your single source all-in-one IT service provider, we offer a wide range of products and services. Visit our website to learn more: www.cybertec-postgresql.com.",
"visible": true,
- "interview": false
+ "interview": true
},
{
"name": "EDB",
"url": "https://dataegret.com/",
"img": "data_egret.png",
"description": "Data Egret helps companies to achieve high-availability of business-critical applications through support of PostgreSQL databases. Our DBA live and breathe Postgres and are experts in performance tuning, backup and recovery and query optimisation. Оn-premise or cloud - we are here for you 24/7!",
- "visible": true
+ "visible": true,
+ "interview": true
},
{
"name": "GITC Pro Limited",
"url": "https://www.gitcpro.com/",
"img": "gitcpro.png",
"description": "GITC Pro provides PostgreSQL and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (and derivatives) support in the UK and the EU.",
- "visible": true
+ "visible": true,
+ "interview": false
}
]
}
--- /dev/null
+{% extends "sponsorinterview.html" %}
+
+{% set sponsorname = "Example Company" %}
+
+{%block interviewintro%}
+<p>
+ <a href="https://www.cybertec-postgresql.com/en/">CYBERTEC</a> is a premier consulting company that provides open-source database PostgreSQL and data science solutions. Through migrations, administration, design, and more, <a href="https://www.cybertec-postgresql.com/en/">CYBERTEC</a> provides an all-in-one catalog of powerful PostgreSQL support.
+</p>
+{%endblock%}
+
+{% block interviewcontent %}
+
+<details open>
+ <summary>
+ <h4>What makes your company a great place to work?</h4>
+ </summary>
+ <div>
+ <p>
+ I believe that a lot boils down to experience. We have been in this sector for over 20 years and together we have hundreds of years of PostgreSQL experience.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+</details>
+
+<details open>
+ <summary>
+ <h4>What do you think are the next biggest challenges for PostgreSQL in the future?</h4>
+ </summary>
+ <div>
+ <p>
+ My biggest concern for the project at the moment is the threat of being taken over by the hyperscalers. In most cases, these hyperscalers do not run vanilla PostgreSQL, and I get the feeling that many players in this field are not committed to true Open Source and proper community-driven development. My fear is that development might end up being more fragmented than it used to be.
+ <p>
+ <p>
+ I also see the influx of too much VC and ever-changing VC strategies as being of no benefit to the project.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+</details>
+
+<details open>
+ <summary>
+ <h4>What is the most important feature in the latest PostgreSQL release?</h4>
+ </summary>
+ <div>
+ <p>
+ This is hard to say. I think it is the unity of all features that make PostgreSQL so great.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+</details>
+
+<details open>
+ <summary>
+ <h4>Where is the database world heading, how will PostgreSQL evolve?</h4>
+ </summary>
+ <div>
+ <p>
+ I think that many countries and organizations are starting to understand that Open Source does matter. We will increasingly see large, strategic infrastructure running PostgreSQL. In many cases, this is already happening, but it will continue to grow more and more.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Let me give an example: If you are running the Suez canal, a country’s police, international harbors, and such, what you want is to keep operations going - no matter what the political situation in the rest of the world might look like.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ What many are beginning to understand is the importance of “digital sovereignty”, and that is exactly what true Open Source PostgreSQL has to offer. We will see technical contributions from many more places in the world, and that is a good thing because it provides long-term stability. On the other hand, we of course see the negative impacts of shortsighted and fairly short-term VC.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Overall, I am really confident because I believe in the end, Open Source is so powerful that it will provide technical opportunities we simply cannot dream up yet. There is a lot of technical innovation on our way which is hard to predict. I think PostgreSQL has a greater future than ever before.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+</details>
+
+<details open>
+ <summary>
+ <h4>What feature should be added to PostgreSQL?</h4>
+ </summary>
+ <div>
+ <p>We need a more vectorized executor and column stores in core.</p>
+ </div>
+</details>
+
+<details open>
+ <summary>
+ <h4>Which PostgreSQL extension do you benefit from most, and why?</h4>
+ </summary>
+ <div>
+ <p>I love pg_squeeze because it helps people to fight table bloat without downtime.</p>
+ </div>
+</details>
+
+<details open>
+ <summary>
+ <h4>How do you see AI changing the database world over the next few years?</h4>
+ </summary>
+ <div>
+ <p>
+ I thought long and hard about the AI side of things. “All will be AI” is definitely wrong, and “AI doesn’t matter” is wrong too, in my judgment.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Why is that?
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Many things in the database business are “boring bookkeeping”. Price lists, GPS tracks, time series - essentially this is bookkeeping, and there is no innovation or AI in ” SELECT avg(weight) FROM container_20ft” … counting, grouping, searching - there is no need for any of this.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ But there are many areas around PostgreSQL where AI does make a lot of sense, though this is more on the tooling and analytics side of things. But let’s stay realistic: 30 years ago, a guy went to a parking lot and counted: “5 cars”. Then database people came along, and the parking lot still contained 5 cars. After data warehousing, map reduce, data lake, NoSQL and all other life changing hypes … still 5 cars in the parking lot.
+ <p>
+ The next hype will come, and trust me: the end result will be: “5 cars in the parking lot”. With every hype, new tools are added, but that does not mean that everything else becomes obsolete.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+</details>
+
+{% endblock %}
--- /dev/null
+{% extends "sponsorinterview.html" %}
+
+{% set sponsorname = "Example Company" %}
+
+{%block interviewintro%}
+<p>
+From migration to Postgres, to architectural audit, to tuning and optimisation, to advising Data Science teams and providing developer training, at <a href="https://dataegret.com/">Data Egret</a> we offer consulting services spanning the full database lifecycle and provide comprehensive services covering the PostgreSQL ecosystem.
+</p>
+{%endblock%}
+
+{% block interviewcontent %}
+
+<details open>
+ <summary>
+ <h4>How does PostgreSQL help your customers?</h4>
+ </summary>
+ <div>
+ <p>
+ Smaller startups that we work with benefit from PostgreSQL’s potential for future scalability, while larger enterprises, with our help, achieve maximum performance, data resilience, and security.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ They are also able to concentrate on how they want to use their data rather than spending time operating it. From transaction processing to data analytics at any scale, from feeding data into their AI models to processing the output, PostgreSQL delivers it all!
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ PostgreSQL provides the speed and reliability that any business requires to stay ahead of the curve!
+ </p>
+ </div>
+</details>
+
+<details open>
+ <summary>
+ <h4>How does your company contribute and benefit from PostgreSQL?</h4>
+ </summary>
+ <div>
+ <p>
+ As a company built on PostgreSQL success, supporting the community has always been one of our pillars.
+ </p>
+
+ <p>
+ Our team contributes to the success of various open-source tools in the Postgres ecosystem, including <a href="https://patroni.readthedocs.io/en/latest/">Patroni</a> and <a href="https://pgbackrest.org/">pgBackRest</a>; took active part in the translation of <a href="https://www.postgresql.org/about/policies/coc/">PostgreSQL Code of Conduct</a> to multiple languages; is advocating for PostgreSQL by organising and speaking at local user groups in Germany and Belgium.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ We also developed a variety of utilities to ease Postgres administration - those are freely available on <a href="https://github.com/dataegret/pg-utils">our GitHub</a>.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+</details>
+
+<details open>
+ <summary>
+ <h4>Which PostgreSQL extension do you benefit from most, and why?</h4>
+ </summary>
+ <div>
+ <p>
+ <a href="https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/pgstatstatements.html">pg_stat_statements</a> has long been our go to extension and is used with each and every client. It’s one of our key tools for identifying performance bottlenecks and helps us to optimise query performance, make informed decisions on indexing, and enhance overall database efficiency.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <a href="https://postgis.net/">PostGIS</a> - is a unique postgres extension that adds support for geographic objects, transforming the database into a spatial database for GIS applications. With its ability of storage, retrieval, and analysis of geographic data, PostGIS is often used by our clients who have projects requiring spatial data management.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <a href="https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/logical-replication.html">Logical replication</a>, while not an extension, is also a very powerful tool to connect Postgres to the entire ecosystem of data analytics (ETL, CDC, Data Warehousing, Machine learning etc.)
+ </p>
+ </div>
+</details>
+
+<details open>
+ <summary>
+ <h4>Where is the database world heading, how will PostgreSQL evolve?</h4>
+ </summary>
+ <div>
+ <p>
+ The continued enhancement of performance and scalability features makes PostgreSQL an even more compelling choice for enterprises dealing with large and complex datasets. Postgres is now a robust ecosystem, not only for classical transaction processing, but also as a platform that can deliver data for any need in a form suitable for every purpose: AI - <a href="https://github.com/pgvector/pgvector">pgvector</a>, geo data - <a href="https://postgis.net/">postGIS</a>, analytics - <a href="https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/logical-replication.html">logical replication</a>.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ As Postgres support is our key service, this is a positive outlook for us as a company.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+</details>
+
+<details open>
+ <summary>
+ <h4>Are there any interesting talks which your staff have presented at other conferences?</h4>
+ </summary>
+ <div>
+ <p>
+ We would like to highlight three sessions by our Egrets that dive into very different aspects of PostgreSQL ecosystem:
+ </p>
+ <h5>Ilya Kosmodemiansky, PostgreSQL Worst Practices</h5>
+ <p>
+ Ilya gave this talk at multiple conferences and it’s always a blast. As busy consultants who come across a variety of Postgres installations with different challenges and subsequent learnings we tend to see persistent worst practices. In his presentation, Ilya chooses several of these worst practices and talks through them.
+ </p>
+ <h5>Valeria Kaplan, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCIVYiZhZhc">Elephant in a nutshell</a> - Navigating the Postgres community 101</h5>
+ <p>
+ Valeria first gave this presentation at PGconf.EU 2023 as an introduction to the PostgreSQL community structure, roles, various activities one can get involved in, and channels to follow to stay up to date with all things PostgreSQL. It received great feedback, and the <a href="https://www.postgresql.eu/events/pgconfeu2023/sessions/session/4855/slides/451/PGconf.EU.%202023_Valeria's%20talk%20-%20Elephant%20in%20a%20nutshell.pdf">slides</a> can now be used by anyone who joins the community or is planning to become more active.
+ </p>
+ <h5>Stefan Fercot, <a href="https://pgday.uk/events/pgdayuk2024/schedule/session/155-achieving-minimal-downtime-in-postgresql-maintenance-tasks/">Achieving minimal downtime in PostgreSQL maintenance tasks</a></h5>
+ <p>
+ Stefan is one of our senior PostgreSQL specialists who has heard the words ‘minimum downtime’ from our clients more times than one can imagine. How to achieve this ‘minimal downtime’ is what his talk at pgDay UK will be about. He will focus on three tools: PostgreSQL <a href="https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/protocol-replication.html">streaming replication</a>, <a href="https://www.pgbouncer.org/">pgBouncer</a> and <a href="https://pgbackrest.org/">pgBackRest</a>, with the latter being his key expertise.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+</details>
+
+{% endblock %}
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