Kirk Wolak
Software Architect at KiraSoft, GSoC mentor, and a cohost with Nik on the Youtube Hacking Postgres series
Appears in 3 Episodes
UUIDv4 vs UUIDv7
Nik is joined by Kirk Wolak to discuss what a random UUIDv4 primary key really costs compared with a time-ordered UUIDv7 or an int8 key on Postgres 18 — index size, WA...
Dump/restore done. Now what?
Nik is joined by Kirk Wolak, Software Architect at KiraSoft, to discuss what a database still needs after pg_restore finishes and before it takes production traffic — ...
GSoC B-Tree Merge
Nik and Michael are joined by Salma El-Sayed and Kirk Wolak to discuss their in-progress and very ambitious Google Summer of Code project around adding Btree Merge sup...