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October 02, 2026 Talk

Invisible by Design: the Multigres pooler

What it takes to make a Postgres connection pooler invisible to your app: session settings, shared prepared statements, LISTEN/NOTIFY and failed commits.
August 20, 2026 Talk

Pooling the Unpoolable

How the Multigres pooler supports transactions, temp tables and LISTEN/NOTIFY without falling back to session pooling.
May 20, 2026 Talk

Connection Pooling Beyond PgBouncer

Building a custom connection pooler for Multigres: extended query protocol, per-user pools for RLS, and prepared statement consolidation.
February 07, 2026 Talk

Horizontal scaling and sharding with Multigres

Why Multigres bundles pooling, HA, backups and sharding into one system for Postgres, and how its query-serving layer works.

January 30, 2025 Talk

Atomic Distributed Transactions in Vitess

How Vitess implements two-phase commit across shards, and how we fuzz it to check commits really are all-or-nothing.

December 11, 2024 Talk

Introduction to Vitess

What Vitess is, how its architecture fits together, and a demo of how it serves queries as a distributed database.

October 26, 2022 Talk

One VTOrc to Rule Them All

High availability in Vitess with VTOrc: failure detection, automatic failovers, and durability policies built on semi-sync replication.
May 18, 2022 Talk

Scaling Databases With Vitess

Vitess's architecture and features, plus a live demo of moving a running RDS database into Vitess and cutting traffic over.