We have announced our Call for Papers for Postgres Vision 2019, taking place June 24-26 at the Sheraton Boston Hotel in Boston, MA. Business leaders, database professionals, and developers are encouraged to submit individual presentations or panel discussions that highlight real-world enterprise-scale case studies, deep dives into Postgres tools and technologies, and explorations of the future of...

Organizations regularly take the opportunity to re-evaluate their relational database management system (RDBMS) when planning a hardware refresh or new virtualization strategy. One EDB customer, an energy utility company located in the Midwestern United States, provides a glimpse into how infrastructure projects often lead to new DBMS decisions.

Organizations choose to adopt cloud-based technology services due to their accessibility, reliability and ease of use. Database technology is no exception, with many organizations adopting Postgres in the Cloud for greater control over their cloud environments and databases.

The travails of the Dutch public sector and its adoption of IT has long been a topic of discussion in the Netherlands, but an investigation by Financieel Dagblad last year really emphasised the scale of the challenges. With the suggestion that numerous Government IT projects overran to the tune of €1 billion it has led – somewhat understandably - to calls for much stricter administration of IT contracts.

We are delighted to announce that Postgres Vision 2019 will take place from June 24-26 at the Sheraton Boston Hotel in Boston, MA. Join us to discover how you can reduce risk and become a smarter, more productive business with Postgres. This powerful Enterprise Postgres conference is a one-of-a-kind opportunity for you to connect, collaborate, and network with Postgres thought leaders from around...

Throughout the public sector, one of today’s most important trends is the adoption of open source software. Thanks to the transparency, security and cost savings that open source software offers, government is embracing modern solutions that make it possible to build better tools for citizens and organizations to access information.

Most organizations with database needs have explored migrating their database operations to the cloud. Cloud-based database environments offer increased levels of convenience and reliability, making it easy to manage and control database access anytime, anywhere. But not every organization is ready to shift its entire database operations into the cloud. The process may start with a few...

Recently I spotted a study by Digital Ocean on the adoption of open source that found more than half of developers are contributing to open source projects.

Highway monitoring solutions provider Costain (formerly Simulation Systems Limited) was building a new system to support vehicular traffic surveillance cameras that monitor tunnels throughout London. Transport for London required constant monitoring capabilities in the tunnels to ensure safety. The number one goal for Costain was to build a new system with greater resiliency, reducing the transition time from the primary surveillance system to a standby to ensure Transport for London maintained this consistent view into the tunnels. At the time, the transition time was two minutes, which was far too long.

In this article we are going to see how database servers work together to allow the second server to take over quickly if the primary server fails(high availability), and to allow multiple servers to serve the same data for SELECTs(horizontal read scalability).