S2E5: Jelte Fennema-Nio, Principal Software Engineer, Microsoft

Hacking Postgres

Alongside his peers studying Systems Network Engineering, Jelte Fennema-Nio unearthed a security vulnerability within the framework of Postgres. Since then, Jelte joined the world of cybersecurity and network engineering. He is currently Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft working on Citus/ Postgres/ PgBouncer.

In this episode we explore:

• Forking and the impact of commercial entities on the core project
• The challenges of connection pooling
• The suitability of Citus for scalability
• The intricacies of configuring PgBouncer
• Paying attention to community needs and modernizing contribution methods

Links mentioned:

Jelte on X

Jelte on LinkedIn