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craigkerstiens

joined 9/20/2008, 11:43:55 PM has 31958 karma

I work at Crunchy Data (https://www.crunchydata.com), building Crunchy Bridge (https://www.crunchybridge.com) - a multi-cloud Postgres managed service. Previously I ran product at Azure Postgres, product at Citus data, and a number of product areas at Heroku.

You can find more thoughts from me: https://www.craigkerstiens.com

Recent Posts

Who do you want to be?
by craigkerstienson 5/22/2025, 7:03:45 PM with 0 comments
Hacking the Postgres Statistics Tables for Faster Queries
by craigkerstienson 5/22/2025, 4:28:59 PM with 0 comments
Logical Replication from Postgres to Iceberg
by craigkerstienson 5/14/2025, 11:52:31 PM with 0 comments
Pg_parquet v0.4.0: Google Cloud Storage, HTTPS storage, and more
by craigkerstienson 5/7/2025, 2:50:18 PM with 0 comments
Another look into PostgreSQL CTE materialization and non-idempotent subqueries
by craigkerstienson 5/4/2025, 4:15:00 PM with 2 comments
Logical Replication from Postgres to Iceberg
by craigkerstienson 5/2/2025, 11:53:31 PM with 0 comments
Logical Replication from Postgres to Iceberg
by craigkerstienson 4/28/2025, 1:17:26 AM with 1 comment
Hacking the Postgres Statistics Tables for Faster Queries
by craigkerstienson 4/22/2025, 1:45:03 PM with 0 comments
Hacking the Postgres Statistics Tables for Faster Queries
by craigkerstienson 4/16/2025, 3:06:03 PM with 0 comments
Creating Histograms with Postgres
by craigkerstienson 4/15/2025, 2:41:24 PM with 0 comments
Papercuts: The little fixes that made a big difference at GitHub
by craigkerstienson 4/2/2025, 6:10:15 PM with 0 comments
An Argument for Logging Off
by craigkerstienson 4/2/2025, 5:48:33 PM with 3 comments
Your Product Should Be Shiny. Your Stack Should Be Boring
by craigkerstienson 4/2/2025, 2:59:50 PM with 0 comments
Reducing Cloud Spend: Migrating Logs from CloudWatch to Iceberg with Postgres
by craigkerstienson 4/1/2025, 3:33:39 PM with 0 comments
Reducing Cloud Spend: Migrating Logs from CloudWatch to Iceberg with Postgres
by craigkerstienson 3/27/2025, 7:17:37 PM with 0 comments
Automatic Iceberg Maintenance Within Postgres
by craigkerstienson 3/23/2025, 9:50:24 PM with 0 comments
Citus: The Misunderstood Postgres Extension
by craigkerstienson 3/18/2025, 5:36:24 PM with 1 comment
The SSO Tax Is Smart Business, and Bad Security
by craigkerstienson 2/7/2025, 8:47:53 PM with 0 comments
A New Postgres Block Storage Layout for Full Text Search
by craigkerstienson 2/2/2025, 3:03:44 PM with 2 comments
DuckDB-airport-extension: Airport extension for Arrow Flight with DuckDB
by craigkerstienson 1/31/2025, 2:32:20 PM with 0 comments
A New Postgres Block Storage Layout for Full Text Search
by craigkerstienson 1/29/2025, 4:53:57 PM with 0 comments
Microsoft/documentdb: DocumentDB – NoSQL document database in Postgres
by craigkerstienson 1/23/2025, 7:32:16 PM with 0 comments
Turso Platform Changes
by craigkerstienson 1/21/2025, 6:54:31 PM with 1 comment
Using State Machines to Run Databases (2016)
by craigkerstienson 1/14/2025, 3:57:07 PM with 0 comments
Postgres UUIDv7 and per-back end monotonicity
by craigkerstienson 1/2/2025, 4:32:20 PM with 19 comments
Postgres UUIDv7 and per-back end monotonicity
by craigkerstienson 1/1/2025, 10:09:39 PM with 0 comments
Setup-Postgres: Fast Postgres setup for GitHub Actions
by craigkerstienson 12/31/2024, 6:57:01 PM with 0 comments
Can we use this index, please? – Why not?
by craigkerstienson 12/30/2024, 7:08:01 PM with 1 comment
Pg_incremental: Incremental Data Processing in Postgres
by craigkerstienson 12/17/2024, 7:53:31 PM with 1 comment
Show HN: Pg_incremental – Incremental Data Processing in Postgres
by craigkerstienson 12/17/2024, 6:23:51 PM with 1 comment
Smarter Postgres LLM with Retrieval Augmented Generation
by craigkerstienson 12/13/2024, 8:38:50 PM with 0 comments
Iceberg Ahead-Analyzing Shipping Data in Postgres
by craigkerstienson 12/5/2024, 3:37:16 PM with 1 comment
Rails World 2024 Review
by craigkerstienson 12/4/2024, 11:18:57 PM with 0 comments
Crunchy Data Warehouse: Postgres with Iceberg for High Performance Analytics
by craigkerstienson 12/3/2024, 8:52:51 PM with 0 comments
New Amazon S3 Tables: Storage optimized for analytics workloads
by craigkerstienson 12/3/2024, 4:52:45 PM with 2 comments
Reputation Is Portable
by craigkerstienson 12/3/2024, 4:36:13 PM with 0 comments
Failover Replication Slots with Postgres 17
by craigkerstienson 12/3/2024, 3:50:29 PM with 0 comments
The Next Generation of the Heroku Platform
by craigkerstienson 12/3/2024, 1:06:44 AM with 1 comment
7 Databases in 7 Weeks for 2025
by craigkerstienson 12/1/2024, 3:14:13 PM with 0 comments
How Jane Street Does Code Review
by craigkerstienson 11/28/2024, 5:15:41 PM with 0 comments
Crunchy Data Warehouse: Postgres with Iceberg for High Performance Analytics
by craigkerstienson 11/27/2024, 8:03:32 PM with 0 comments
AWS randomly assigns AZ names differently across accounts
by craigkerstienson 11/27/2024, 7:18:15 PM with 4 comments
Crunchy Data Warehouse: Postgres with Iceberg for High Performance Analytics
by craigkerstienson 11/24/2024, 2:09:16 PM with 1 comment