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Bruce Momjian’s presentation offers a window into the ways that PostgreSQL can continue to improve alongside its community, as well as key hurdles that businesses invested in PostgreSQL databases should look out for

Last week, EDB hosted a webinar entitled 5 Tenets for 2022 Database Planning. For those unable to attend, we’ve gathered the key highlights and insights from the event.

In the wake of Postgres Build 2021, High Availability Architect Shaun Thomas follows up on some of the questions he wasn't able to answer during his session on High Availability.

The recent release of EDB 14 offers further incentive for organizations to adopt PostgreSQL for their most demanding mission-critical applications, from high-speed transactional systems  to operational analytical ones. 

The BigAnimal team at EDB is excited to announce that both EDB Postgres Advanced Server and PostgreSQL 14 are generally available in the BigAnimal cloud offering. 

Michael Ralph Stonebraker is a computer scientist specializing in database systems. EDB is extremely proud and grateful to have had Dr. Stonebraker speak at Postgres Build 2021.

EDB was thrilled to host the second iteration of PostgresBuild—our annual conference focused on the European market—from November 30 to December 1. For those who were unable to attend, we’ve compiled some key sessions from the event, so that you can experience the discussions had with PostgreSQL users, developers, community members, and innovators.

Yogesh Mahajan guides you through the process of setting up the apache2 webserver authentication with HTTP BASIC auth in pgAdmin 4, on Debian or Ubuntu Linux.

Distributed databases are coming. They will be here in multiple forms. For PostgreSQL, this is nothing new. We have seen technology fork from PostgreSQL in different shapes and sizes, only to be overtaken by the original in the end. This is just a new dawn on the horizon for PostgreSQL.

Database Tech-Lead Suraj Kharage expands further on his previous blog on join push-down for mysql_fdw, continuing with an exploration of the new aggregate push-down feature released with mysql_fdw 27.0.

In this weeks PG Phriday, High Availability Architect Shaun Thomas explores some of the more advanced repmgr use cases that will bring your Postgres High Availability game to the next level.

Manish Yadav and co-author Vibhor Kumar help you prepare your data center for unforeseen disasters with this informative blog on carrying out switchover and switchback drills.

EDB Global Solutions Architect Phil Allsopp discusses various aspects of your server and its performance along with several ways you can significantly improve the performance of PostgreSQL without making any changes to your PostgreSQL configuration.

To conclude our Integrating PostgreSQL blog series, this post highlights the final area of importance in our PostgreSQL integration tree: Infrastructure Integration.

This blog post highlights the importance of Management Tools for Monitoring, Alerting, and Tuning.

By running the same Postgres everywhere, you can do anything you need to do and avoid any limiting factors as you grow and scale your open source journey with Postgres. Learn how to shift to a full-circle focus on Postgres with Community 360.

Next up in our Integrating PostgreSQL blog series, we'll further explore PostgreSQL integration to help enterprises do more and go faster. This blog post will highlight the next area of importance: High Availability and Disaster Recovery Tools.

Tuning PostgreSQL involves hardware, the operating system, changing a few parameters, and query tuning. This webinar will help you improve performance in just a few steps. 

In this post, we'll recap the on-demand session, Hands On Comparison: Are Cloud Postgres Database-as-a-services All They're Cracked Up to Be?  by EDB's Senior Sales Engineer, Tom Rieger and Performance Engineer, Mark Wong.

Interested in learning more about EDB's internal benchmarking efforts? Performance Engineer Mark Wong pulls back the curtain and shares how HammerDBs' TPROC-C workload faired against DBT-2 in a competitive benchmarking effort.