Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL - What's new and lessons learned

Check out http://www.pgconf.us/2015/event/70/ for the full talk details. This session will provide a brief overview of the RDS service and then do a deep dive into the new features that we have released in the last few months including Read Replicas and supporting trigger based replications solutions . During the session we will also discuss the lessons learned n running a large fleet of PostgreSQL instances including specific recommendations. About the Speaker Grant McAlister is a Senior Principal Engineer at Amazon.com where he works on RDS - Amazon's Relational Database Service, the service he help found 5 years ago. For the past 15 years Grant has been responsible for the performance, scalability and availability of Amazon's databases. Before joining Amazon.com in 1999, Grant worked as an Independent Database Consultant and as a Senior Principle Consultant for Oracle Corporation. A 1991 graduate of the University of Alberta, Grant has been working with database systems for the past 24 years.