Speakers
Barbora Linhartova
Jan Suchanek
Description
What happens when a stream-obsessed writer meets a data-loving elephant?
You get a fast, open, and surprisingly elegant story about modern data ingestion.
This talk shows how PostgreSQL 18 can act as the central hub of an open Data Mesh, powered by Kafka and JDBC Sink connectors. We’ll explore how new features like Asynchronous I/O, JSON_TABLE, and parallel COPY dramatically boost ingest speed — and how pg_duckdb brings lightning-fast analytics directly inside PostgreSQL.
Expect practical architecture examples, performance results, and a clear takeaway:
when Kafka met the Elephant, streaming finally became simple — and fast.
