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The Hidden Cost of PostgreSQL Performance Issues, & How to Regain Control Before They Escalate
PostgreSQL is built to support mission critical systems. Yet in many environments, performance issues build quietly over time and begin affecting from query speed to inflated cloud costs.
Join us on 13 May 2026, at 3 PM GMT for a session on “The hidden cost of PostgreSQL performance issues, and how to regain control before they escalate”, where Umair Shahid, Founder & CEO of Stormatics, will breakdown the cost of performance issues in production PostgreSQL environments and what teams can do to bring systems back under control.
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What will be covered:
→ What to look at first to understand where time and resources are being lost
→ Infrastructure cost of poor query plans, excessive I/O, and memory pressure
→ Operational overhead created by over-indexing, table bloat, and WAL growth
→ Effect of slow transactions and lock contention on application performance
→ Workload shifts that create sustained pressure on PostgreSQL over time
→ Practical ways to improve performance without overprovisioning systems
Who should attend:
This session is designed for teams responsible for keeping PostgreSQL stable under production load and making practical decisions before issues become expensive.
About the Speaker
Umair Shahid
Founder & CEO Stormatics
Umair Shahid is the Founder & CEO of Stormatics, a specialist database services firm built to Elevate PostgreSQL in production. He works with fintechs, SaaS companies, and enterprises to design and run production-grade systems: resilient architectures, performance under load, security hardening, and migrations from proprietary databases across cloud and on-prem environments.
With more than two decades in the ecosystem, Umair is a subject matter expert who is regularly invited to speak at industry conferences. He publishes practical blogs and benchmark-driven white papers reaching more than 15,000 readers each month.