S2E4: Amit Kapila, Fujitsu India

Hacking Postgres

Amit Kapila is a PostgreSQL Committer and a Senior Director at Fujitsu India. Amit joins the show to share his contributions to logical replication enhancements (achieving highly available systems), his involvement in the PostgreSQL community, and his perspective on contributions from tech giants in advancing PostgreSQL features.

In this episode we explore:

• Amit’s early work with PostgreSQL and Oracle
• The future of active-active topology
• The dependence on managed services for database management
• The importance of conflict resolution in replication
• Overcoming the lack of an open-source development environment in India

Links mentioned:

pgsql-hackers

Amit Kapila on LinkedIn

Amit Kapila on X (@kapila_amit)

Amit’s Blog