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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Part 3: Postgres Journey to the top with developers

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

Part 2: PostgreSQL’s incredible trip to the top with developers

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

Presenting Table Access Methods in New York City

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

Postgres-BDR: It is also about fast safe upgrades

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

[Video] Ansible and PostgreSQL

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

pgxc_ctl: Teaching Postgres-XL in New York City

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...