Name: CERN PGDay 2026
Start: 2026-02-06T09:30:00+01:00
End: 2026-02-06T21:30:00+01:00
Location: CERN

CERN PGDay 2026

Friday, 6 February 2026 - 09:30
CERN (503/1-001)

: Sessions

: Talks

: Breaks

6 Feb 2026

09:30	--- Welcome coffee ---
10:00	Opening - Maurizio De Giorgi (CERN) Tobias Bussmann (Swiss PostgreSQL Users Group)
10:05	A new PostgreSQL backend for CERN Tape Archive scheduling for LHC Run 4 - Konstantina Skovola
10:35	DCS Data Tools - PostgreSQL/TimescaleDB Implementation for ATLAS DCS Time-Series Data - Dimitrios Matakias (CERN) Paris Moschovakos
11:05	--- Break ---
11:15	Operational hazards of managing PostgreSQL DBs over 100TB - Teresa Lopes (Adyen)

12:00	--- Lunch break ---
13:15	Vacuuming Large Tables: How Recent Postgres Changes Further Enable Mission Critical Workloads - Robert Treat
14:00	--- Break ---
14:10	The (very practical) Postgres Sharding Landscape - Álvaro Hernández
14:55	--- Coffee break ---
15:25	The Alchemy of Shared Buffers: Balancing Concurrency and Performance - Josef Machytka
16:10	--- Break ---
16:20	When Kafka Met Elephant: A Love Story about Fast Ingestion - Jan Suchanek Barbora Linhartova
17:05	Closing - Maurizio De Giorgi (CERN) Tobias Bussmann (Swiss PostgreSQL Users Group)
17:20	--- Social event ---
19:30	Incremental Backup with PostgreSQL17 (Reserve Talk) - Ms Marion Baumgartner

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