Daniel Gustafsson
Daniel Gustafsson is a long time Postgres hacker, major contributor and committer on the project. Having been around the project for over a decade he has taken part of most aspects of the project, writing code and docs, organizing conferences and occasionally speaking at them, partaking in governance efforts etc. He currently works for Microsoft doing Postgres hacking, and was previously employed by VMware and Pivotal where he worked on Greenplum, a data warehouse based on Postgres.
When not working on Postgres he is a curl/libcurl contributor, committer and security team member.
Session
Databases are by nature IO heavy, and in the upcoming version of Postgres we continue to push the IO envelope with the introduction of asynchronous IO infrastructure. As datasets grow, the need for pushing even larger amounts of data across the wire will increase, and with it the performance overhead paid when using TLS connections. In this talk we'll go through how Postgres is using OpenSSL, what sort of bottlenecks we run into, and what our ultimate OpenSSL changelog wishlist would be.
And while at it, can we have a pony too?