by Erik Bransberg | Apr 22, 2022 | AWS, Security
With Amazon RDS, there are many options to manage authentication. The first is to use IAM authentication, which is the preferred method. A second way is to integrate with AWS secrets, allowing for password management in a centralized manner. Another approach is...
by Erik Bransberg | May 18, 2021 | AWS, HA Failover, VMware Greenplum, Web Scale
Erik Brandsberg, CTO presented an in-depth technical presentation on the capabilities and limitations of Pg-Bouncer and PgPool-II. For Postgres operators, you will find this very educational. The Heimdal Proxy is also compared and fills in feature gaps the open source...
by Erik Bransberg | Jul 12, 2020 | AWS, Web Scale
Background In using databases as a key component of internet infrastructure, IT departments are finding unexpected problems when using DBaaS (Database-as-a-Service). One of these challenges is in connection. There are three areas where connection management can be a...
by Erik Bransberg | Apr 11, 2019 | AWS, Web Scale
Application developers must balance time between coding features and improving performance and scalability. Most believe that focusing on functionality and features is the priority, but features and application response times go hand-in-hand. Slow performance can...
