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The Future of Postgres in a Multi-Cloud World: A Developer Perspective
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Sponsored by: Enterprisedb Corporation
In an agile world, developers drive decisions! While IT architects, CIOs and CTOs still play a major role in setting up the list of allowed software packages, increasingly application specific decisions are made by developers.
How do developers choose a database or persistence API? The first and most important criteria are the core capabilities, such as transactions, flexible data type (JSONB etc.), full-text search, and geographic information systems. Innovation, meaning how quickly do new features become available and how aligned is the product road-map with the developer’s perspective, tends to be the second criterion. Nobody wants their app to turn into a zombie just because they chose a data platform that is stagnant.