Level: Intermediate
Datadog operates hundreds of Postgres clusters spread across different cloud providers. Our Postgres usage continues to increase in breadth to more and more individual clusters and in depth as certain clusters grow larger and have more intensive performance needs. Over time, all the little differences between cloud provider offerings developed into major pains for application developers and for database operators. Datadog built a self-managed Postgres platform on Kubernetes in order to alleviate these pains. Our self-managed platform is now our default way of running Postgres and gives us a single foundation to make it scalable with automation, to make it reliable with architecture, and to make it cost effective.
In this talk, we’ll cover: