S2E9: Sai Srirampur, PeerDB

Hacking Postgres

Sai Srirampur is the co-founder of PeerDB and a veteran Postgres Solutions Engineer with experience at Citus Data and Microsoft. He has been at the forefront of optimizing and scaling Postgres for large data workloads and is now spearheading innovation in data movement and replication with PeerDB. In this episode, we'll discuss the challenges of tuning massive Postgres systems, real-time data streaming solutions, and PeerDB’s vision for the future.

In this episode we explore:

• Leaving Microsoft and starting Sai’s own company, PeerDB
• Developing PeerDB's data movement and replication tool
• Why Postgres might not be suitable for everything at a large scale
• Having team members be database experts first before being software developers
• The growing customer demand for Clickhouse and Snowflake

Links mentioned:

PeerDB

Sai Srirampur on X (@saisrirampur)

Sai Srirampur on LinkedIn