Tom Kincaid

SVP, Database Servers and Tools

Tom is the Senior Vice President of Database Servers and Tools at EnterpriseDB. He and his team work across the company to deliver to many of EDB’s open source efforts including Postgres, Barman and Trusted Postgres Architect (TPA). 

Tom is also responsible for the development and delivery of all EDB’s server products. In addition to the database server offerings, Tom is responsible for all database extensions, backup and recovery tools, HA tools for Postgres, connection poolers and application connectors.

He has been developing, deploying and supporting Database Systems and Enterprise Software for over 30 years. He was the GM of North America for 2ndQuadrant and was responsible for over two thirds of the company’s annual revenue, which grew significantly year over year. He rejoined EDB through its acquisition of 2ndQudrant.

Responsibilities in Tom’s past include the management and maintenance of hundreds of 24x7 database Postgres clusters. He has overseen the design and delivery of Postgres training solutions as well as the deployment of PostgreSQL at Fortune 500 financial institutions, telecommunications companies and at military facilities all over the world. 
 

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작성자: Tom Kincaid 게시일: 2025년 8월 18일 최종 수정일: 2026년 8월 27일 매년 발표되는 Stack Overflow Developer Survey(개발자 설문조사)는 개발자들이 사용하는 프로그래밍 언어, IDE, 웹 프레임워크, 데이터베이스 등의 기술 스택을 보여줍니다. 단순히 현재 사용하는 기술뿐 아니라 앞으로 사용하고 싶은 기술과 계속 사용하고 싶은 기술도 함께 조사합니다. 2025년 설문에서 PostgreSQL(Postgres)은 가장 많이 사용되고, 가장 사용하고 싶으며, 가장 존경받는 데이터베이스로 나타났습니다. 하지만 처음부터 모든 부문에서 1위였던 것은 아닙니다. 이 글에서는 2017년부터 2025년까지 8년간의 설문 데이터를 바탕으로 PostgreSQL이 각 부문에서...
EDB Labs
작성자: Tom Kincaid | 2025년 10월 19일 1990년대 오픈소스 관계형 데이터베이스 시장에서 MySQL은 Windows 지원, 웹 환경에 적합한 속도, 초기 투자와 LAMP 스택을 바탕으로 PostgreSQL보다 빠르게 성장했습니다. 그렇다면 PostgreSQL은 이러한 격차에도 어떻게 사라지지 않고 살아남아 오늘날 가장 널리 주목받는 데이터베이스 중 하나로 성장할 수 있었을까요? 이 글에서는 MySQL이 초기 시장을 선점한 이유와 PostgreSQL이 라이선스, ACID 트랜잭션, 소스 코드, 옵티마이저 및 확장성을 바탕으로 살아남은 배경을 살펴봅니다. 저자의 15년 이상에 걸친 Postgres 업계 경험과 초기 프로젝트 참여자 및 도입 기업 관계자들과의 대화를 바탕으로 정리한 오픈소스...
Technical Blog
저자: Tom Kincaid (EDB Vice President) 날짜: 2025년 12월 1일 이 블로그는 매년 실시되는 스택 오버플로우(Stack Overflow) 개발자 설문조사에서 Postgres가 어떻게 개발자들이 가장 존경하고, 원하고, 실제로 사용하는 데이터베이스가 되었는지에 대한 제 견해를 담고 있습니다. ‘개발자와 함께 정상에 오른 Postgres의 여정’ 시리즈의 세 번째이자 마지막 글입니다. 이전 시리즈 요약: Part 1: 설문조사 결과의 연도별 변화를 통해 Postgres가 정상에 오르는 과정을 팩트(Fact) 중심으로 다뤘습니다. Part 2: Postgres가 2위, 3위, 심지어 4위에 머물렀던 시절에도 사라지지 않고 생존할 수 있었던 이유에 대한 제 생각을 정리했습니다. 이번...
Technical Blog
This blog provides my opinion on how Postgres, according to the annual Stack Overflow developer survey, became the most admired, desired and used database by developers. This is part three in my series about the Postgres journey to the top with developers. Here are the first parts of this story: Postgres incredible rise to the top with developers. This presented the fact as a result of the...
Business Transformation
In August of this year, I published a blog entitled PostgreSQL’s incredible trip to the top with developers which shows how Postgres has become the most used, most loved and most desired database according to the Stack Overflow annual developer survey. In that blog I said, I want to do the series in two parts. After some thought, I have decided to make it a 3 part series. It will break down as...
Technical Blog
At the end of September 2025, PGConf New York City will take place at Convene facilities at 117 West 46th Street in New York City. Looking at the incredible companies who are sponsoring this conference, the fact that it is a full three days, and the incredible speaker line up, I am confident this will be a fantastic event. It is being run by the United States PostgreSQL Association ( PgUS). We...
Technical Blog
In the past year, I have had conversations with many clients and prospects about Postgres-BDR. Postgres-BDR has been in production for many mission critical deployments for quite some time. We have more clients coming on board each month. Recently, I have been meeting with companies whose business is in either Telecommunications. In such industries, down time is measured in money. The systems need...
Technical Blog
I don’t often get to speak on technical topics, but the video of my presentation below covers various concepts around “Ansible and PostgreSQL” – something I am very enthusiastic about. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32oPtGmh4Sg This presentation covers the following topics: Overview of Ansible and PostgreSQL Best strategies for mixed cloud and on-premises deployments How to deploy AlwaysOn...
Technical Blog
At the 2ndQuadrant PostgreSQL conference in New York City this year, I had the pleasure of delivering a training on Postgres-XL together with Andrew Dunstan. We capped the attendees at 8 because we wanted to have a lot of lab time with the students and spend time helping them get set up with Postgres-XL. The class sold out. We had attendees not only from New York City but also from other parts of...