Amit Kapila

Senior Director at Fujitsu

About

Amit Kapila is a Committer and a Major Developer in PostgreSQL. Over the course of a 20-year career, he developed deep expertise in not only PostgreSQL but also Oracle, and in-memory databases. He works at Fujitsu as Senior Director.

Amit Kapila works in open source PostgreSQL. He participates actively in the development of PostgreSQL, both developing and reviewing new features. The major work done by him in PostgreSQL includes parallel-query, performance, scalability, and durable hash-indexes. In the past, he has worked on integrating in-memory storage Engine to PostgreSQL-based code and at a time he also improved the Oracle performance by doing statement caching.

Amit Kapila has presented the following presentations

What Next in Logical Replication at 2021 Postgres Conference Webinars

presented by Amit Kapila

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Logical replication has been there since 10.0 and with each release, it is getting better. This talk will start with the basic architecture of Logical replication in PostgreSQL and then cover the various ways in which it can be helpful to users.
One of the shortcomings of logical replication as compare to physical replication is that currently, it allows the transaction to be replicated...
more
Tue 28 2021 Dev
What next in Logical Replication? at CHINA 2020 And PGConf.Asia 2020

presented by Amit Kapila
Logical replication has been there since 10.0 and with each release, it is getting better. This talk will start with the basic architecture of Logical replication in PostgreSQL and then cover the various ways in which it can be helpful to users.
One of the shortcomings of logical replication as compare to physical replication is that currently, it allows the transaction to be replicated onl...
more
Fri 20 2020 Everything about Postgres