===== Scaling PostgreSQL; Citus vs TimescaleDB, Choosing The Best-Fit =====
  * **Speaker**: Robert Bernier  
  * **Room**: CC 202  
  * **Time**: Sat 10:30 am – 12:00 pm  

  * **Format**: Hands-on Lab (90 min)  
  * **Difficulty**: Expert  
  * **Track**: Development & Dev Tools  
  * **Additional Tags**: DevOps, Creative  
  * **Presenter Location**: In-person  
  * **Experience**: umpteenth time speaking  

==== Description: ====  
Anybody with a few years of experience as a PostgreSQL DBA has heard of the CitusDB and TimescaleDB extensions. For those familiar with repositories and GitHub, installing these extensions is straightforward. But the real question is: **which one should you choose?**

This session guides attendees toward the best‑fit solution by covering the issues that matter and the underlying reasons for selecting one technology over the other.

**Target Audience:**  
  * Developers  
  * DBAs  
  * Database architects