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 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

    The talk will be presented by myself and Emma Fitzgerald. We will cover: - Criticality of Postgres for Atlassian. Most of Atlassian's products use Postgres for its data store. - How our Postgres infrastructure, which is one of the largest Postgres fleet in the world, is managed today in the cloud. - Limitations/Challenges with this system. This section will focus on general challenges with ...

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    Fri 17 2025 Development