Bio

Gianni Ciolli is Vice President at EDB, specializing in highly available distributed architectures. Before EDB and 2ndQuadrant, he worked at the University of Florence as a researcher in Mathematics. Gianni has been using Free Software for almost 30 years. As a member of the Italian PostgreSQL User Group (ITPUG), he helped organize the first European PGDay in Prato, Italy (2008), and many editions of the the Italian PGDay. He is an author of 6 editions of the PostgreSQL Administration Cookbook.

Talk given together with Afdroditi Loukidou

Talk Description: How to reproduce production environments, and Why

Reproducible production environments are more important than other “nice to have” features: they enable successful deployments, performance testing, and fast incident response, by minimizing uncertainty and reducing downtime when most needed.

We will explore how TPA can help with replicate your Postgres production cluster, by enabling reproducibility as a solid engineering practice leading to improved performance confidence, safer deployments and overall system resilience. We will conclude with a practical example where we reproduce a production environment and then carry out performance testing at 1:1 scale while keeping cloud costs negligible.