Breakout Session Presented by Dan Robinson of Heap at PGConf Silicon Valley 2015
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Dan Robinson, then CTO of Heap, explains how Heap runs its product analytics backend on PostgreSQL and CitusDB. It covers conversion funnels, retention and cohort queries across tens of billions of events and 50 TB of data, plus Postgres and Kafka together and the indexing strategy.
Why HN recommends it: HN commenters point to it as a first-hand overview of Heap's Postgres/Citus architecture and its distinctive indexing approach.
“Dan from Heap Analytics has a great talk about how they use Postgres and Citus.” Read on HN ↗