Postgres Emergency Room

Postgres FM

Nikolay and Michael discuss PostgreSQL emergencies — both the psychological side of incident management, and some technical aspects too.
Here are some links to things they mentioned:

• Site Reliability Engineering resources from Google https://sre.google
• GitLab Handbook SRE https://handbook.gitlab.com/job-families/engineering/infrastructure/site-reliability-engineer
• Keeping Customers Streaming — The Centralized Site Reliability Practice at Netflix https://netflixtechblog.com/keeping-customers-streaming-the-centralized-site-reliability-practice-at-netflix-205cc37aa9fb
• Our monitoring checklist episode https://postgres.fm/episodes/monitoring-checklist
• Hannu Krosing talk on Postgres TV — Do you vacuum everyday? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcRi8Z7rkPg
• Our episode on corruption https://postgres.fm/episodes/corruption
• Nikolay’s episode on stopping and starting Postgres faster https://postgres.fm/episodes/stop-and-start-postgres-faster
• Our episode on out of disk https://postgres.fm/episodes/out-of-disk
• The USE method (Brendan Gregg) https://www.brendangregg.com/usemethod.html
• Thundering herd problem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thundering_herd_problem
• pgwatch2 Postgres AI edition https://gitlab.com/postgres-ai/pgwatch2

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What did you like or not like? What should we discuss next time? Let us know via a YouTube comment, on social media, or by commenting on our Google doc!

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Postgres FM is produced by:

• Michael Christofides, founder of pgMustard
• Nikolay Samokhvalov, founder of Postgres.ai

With special thanks to:

• Jessie Draws for the elephant artwork