Date: 2015-09-18
Time: 21:00 - 21:50
Room: Houston Ballroom B/C
Level: Intermediate
Carpet bombing ad hoc containerized PostgreSQL instances across an organization is reckless and likely a disaster waiting to happen. This talk will walk you through the design, implementation (including some tooling), and considerations for setting up an in-house PostgreSQL-as-a-Service offering for your organization. Considerations include:
Groupon is a commerce company with many diverse offerings and engineering teams. Even though teams at Groupon have autonomy over their application, the management of databases are operationally centralized into a managed as-a-Service framework. Across regulatory domains, performance considerations, and data volumes, successfully deploying PostgreSQL-as-a-Service is achievable with a disciplined approach to managing data.
