May 02 2024 31 mins 4
Alongside his peers studying Systems Network Engineering, Jelte Fennema-Nio unearthed a security vulnerability within the framework of Postgres. Since then, Jelte joined the world of cybersecurity and network engineering. He is currently Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft working on Citus/ Postgres/ PgBouncer.
In this episode we explore:
- Forking and the impact of commercial entities on the core project
- The challenges of connection pooling
- The suitability of Citus for scalability
- The intricacies of configuring PgBouncer
- Paying attention to community needs and modernizing contribution methods
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