Platform implementation
We run PostgreSQL as an enterprise platform, with Patroni for failover, pgBackRest for backups and a clear upgrade policy, so an open-source database can carry production systems.
PostgreSQL has no single vendor, so the work centres on deciding who supports it and on building the high availability, backup and monitoring that a commercial database would ship with. It runs on any cloud or server, which makes it easy to keep data in an in-country region or data centre, and it is a common target when organisations in the UAE and Saudi Arabia move away from proprietary licences. ICU collations handle Arabic sorting, and we test search and ordering on real Arabic names before go-live.
A typical build pairs Patroni with a distributed configuration store for leader election, PgBouncer for connection pooling and pgBackRest for full, incremental and point-in-time backups. Logical replication lets us migrate with short cut-overs, Citus takes over when one node can no longer hold the data, and pgAudit with row-level security answers auditors who ask who saw which records.
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Design, build, integration and run-state support, with each decision recorded for your steering committee.
The support model, whether community, a commercial distribution or a managed cloud service, plus the HA topology, the approved extensions and the major-version upgrade policy, are agreed with the platform lead and security before any server is built.
Schema and code conversion with tools such as ora2pg, PL/SQL rewritten as PL/pgSQL, and side-by-side comparison of results.
Managed services such as Amazon RDS, Azure Database for PostgreSQL and Cloud SQL compared with running PostgreSQL yourself, on cost, control and region.
pg_stat_statements, autovacuum tuning and dashboards in Grafana or your existing monitoring, so slow queries and table bloat show up early.
The PostgreSQL community issues minor releases every quarter and a new major version each year, each supported for five years, so we apply minor updates on schedule, plan major upgrades well before end of life, and watch replication lag, vacuum activity and backup checks.
PostgreSQL fits teams that want to cut licence cost and vendor dependence, build new applications on an open standard, or need extensions such as PostGIS or pgvector without buying another product.
Tell us what the platform needs to do and when. We will propose a first phase with scope, team and an itemised quotation.
