PGCon2010 - Final Release III
PGCon 2010
The PostgreSQL Conference
| Speakers | |
|---|---|
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Jim Nasby |
| Schedule | |
|---|---|
| Day | Talks - 2 - 2010-05-21 |
| Room | DMS 1140 |
| Start time | 10:00 |
| Duration | 01:00 |
| Info | |
| ID | 274 |
| Event type | Lecture |
| Track | Case Studies |
| Language used for presentation | English |
Online financial services & Postgres
Staking our claim on open source technologies
Enova Financial provides online financial services to under-served consumers in the United States, Great Britain, Australia and Canada.
What originally started with a handful of people and a small application running on MySQL has grown into a multi-million dollar business running on Postgres. In an environment where downtime costs hundreds of thousands of dollars a minute, we continue to stake our claim on open source technologies, including Postgres, Skytools, Ruby on Rails and Linux.
In this talk, we will explain
How we're using Postgres
Why we switched from MySQL
Why we chose Postgres
What challenges we face using Postgres