Arul Arulappan

Sr Principal Engineer at Atlassian

About

Arul has got more than 20 years experience working with PostgreSQL as a developer and building large scale data stores using PostgreSQL. He is currently a Sr. Principal Engineer in Atlassian's Cloud Storage Engineering team which is responsible for building and maintaining the persistent data stores that power Jira, Confluence and other Atlassian Products.

Arul Arulappan has presented the following presentations

    Arul Arulappan Emma Fitzgerald Building SaaS scale Data store using PostgreSQL at PG Down Under 2025
    How to build and run a large PostgreSQL fleet with millions of databases.

    presented by Arul Arulappan and Emma Fitzgerald

    Atlassian runs one of the largest Postgres fleets in the world with millions of databases. In this talk we will present how we have built and manage this scale, and the steps we are taking to build the next generation of this critical infrastructure that underpins our cloud version of Jira and Confluence. We will cover: - Criticality of Postgres for Atlassian. Most of Atlassian's products use...

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    Fri 17 2025 Development