German Eichberger is a Principal Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft. He leads the DocumentDB Kuberntes Operator team and previously led the Cassandra team which earned him a Cassandra Catalyst designation with the Apache Software Foundation. German worked at Rackspace as a Software Engineer and a core reviewer on OpenStack Octavia and Neutron FWaaS. He has been involved in Rackspace's new Managed Kubernetes offering. He earned a Master in Computer Science from University of Karlsruhe. 

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From SQL to NoSQL? Building a MongoDB-Compatible Engine on PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL is widely recognized for its extensibility, but can we really build a NoSQL engine on top of it? In this session, we’ll explore how DocumentDB repurposes PostgreSQL’s storage engine, query planner, and extension system to support MongoDB wire protocol, dynamic schemas, and document-based operations.

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