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The Ever-Growing Ecosystem of Postgres with Alvaro Hernandez

Published: Feb. 9, 2023, 11 a.m.

\xc1lvaro Hernandez, Founder of OnGres, joins Corey on Screaming in the cloud to discuss his hobby project Dyna53, the balkanization of AWS services, and all things Postgres. \xc1lvaro and Corey discuss what it means to be an AWS Community Hero these days, and \xc1lvaro shares some of his experiences as being one of the first Heroes to provide feedback on AWS services. \xc1lvaro also shares his thoughts on why people shouldn\u2019t underestimate the importance of selecting the right database, why he feels Postgres and Kubernetes work so well together, and the ever-growing ecosystem of Postgres.

About \xc1lvaro

\xc1lvaro is a passionate database and software developer. Founder of OnGres ("ON postGRES"), he has been dedicated to Postgres and R&D in databases for more than two decades.


\xc1lvaro is at heart an open source advocate and developer. He has created software like StackGres, a Platform for running Postgres on Kubernetes or ToroDB (MongoDB on top of Postgres). As a well-known member of the PostgreSQL Community, \xc1lvaro founded the non-profit Fundaci\xf3n PostgreSQL and the Spanish PostgreSQL User Group. He has contributed, among others, the SCRAM authentication library to the Postgres JDBC driver.


You can find him frequently speaking at PostgreSQL, database, cloud (becoming an AWS Data Hero in 2019), and Java conferences. In the last 10 years, \xc1lvaro has completed more than 120 tech talks (https://aht.es).


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