Karen Jex
Senior Solutions Architect @ Crunchy Data
Karen was a database administrator for over 20 years and was once described as “quite personable for a DBA”, which she decided to take as a compliment! She’s now a Senior Solutions Architect, helping her customers to design and manage their (PostgreSQL) database environments.
Karen gives talks about databases at PostgreSQL and developer conferences because she loves sharing knowledge. She is also on the PostgreSQL Europe board and leads the recently formed PostgreSQL Europe Diversity Task Force.
When she’s not playing with databases, Karen can either be found crocheting cute gifts for her friends, or out on one of her bikes enjoying the mountains where she lives with her family.
POSETTE 2025 Talk
Managing Postgres at scale: Challenges, Tools & Techniques
Managing databases at scale can be hard! Databases keep getting bigger, and organisations are managing more and more databases. To make things even more challenging, you may be one of the many people who are expected to implement and look after database systems who isn’t actually a database administrator. Maybe your training and expertise lies in other areas such as sysadmin, devops or application development.
In this session, we’ll think about some of the difficulties you might encounter when managing databases at scale, whether that means looking after multi-terabyte databases or being responsible for hundreds or even thousands of databases. More importantly, we’ll look at the skills, tools and techniques that you can rely on to manage them successfully. This will include topics such as:
- architecture
- automation
- disaster recovery, high availability & backups
- sizing, memory and storage
- partitioning and sharding options
- monitoring and alerting
Past Talks
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You Don't Need a Database Backup Policy (POSETTE 2024)
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Divide and Conquer: Multi-tenancy in Postgres (Citus Con 2023)
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