Dylan Griffith

Principal Engineer at GitLab

About

Dylan Griffith is a Principal Engineer at GitLab. In the 7 years working there he has worked across many areas of the project with a focus on build scalable architectures and optimising all aspects of our usage of Postgres.

Dylan Griffith has presented the following presentations

    Dylan Griffith Technical Deep Dive Into GitLab’s Database Load Balancer Architecture at PG Down Under 2025
    Strategic decisions in the design of GitLab's sophisticated open source Rails load balancer

    presented by Dylan Griffith

    Problem: Idle Replicas

    Many open source tools exist today for creating high availability deployments of Postgres. Most of these tools involve having 1 primary database and a fleet of replicas which have some small amount of replication lag. Almost all of these solutions mean running multiple Postgres servers with the same amount of disk space, CPU and memory in order to ensure that any re...

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    Fri 17 2025 Development