📣 Have a PostgreSQL insight to share? The call for proposals (CFP) for POSETTE: An Event for POSETTE 2026 is OPEN! 🎉 * Free & virtual * June 16–18, 2026 * Organized by the #PostgreSQL team at Microsoft Submit by Feb 1, 2026 → posetteconf.com/2026/cfp/ #PosetteConf #Postgres #CFP

Building a dev experience for Postgres in VS Code with Rob Emanuele (E33) #TalkingPostgres talkingpostgres.com/episodes/bui...

Postgres + VS Code fans - this podcast episode is for you! Learn all about building a dev experience for Postgres in VS Code 🔗 talkingpostgres.com/episodes/bui...

🎙️ New @talkingpostgres.com podcast Ep33 is out! Microsoft engineer Rob Emanuele joined to discuss building a dev experience for Postgres in VS Code @vscode.dev + geospatial queries, guitar busking, creativity & agentic coding 🎧 talkingpostgres.com/episodes/bui... 📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UuF...

Happening on Wed 5 Nov at 10am PST, a LIVE recording of Ep33 of the @talkingpostgres.com podcast with guest Rob Emanuele, to talk about "Building a dev experience for Postgres in VS Code" Join us on Discord to be part of the parallel live text chat: aka.ms/TalkingPostg...

Just published my take on @pgconf.eu & the TL;dr is that it was a wonderful PostgreSQL conference. But the trip report / blog post explains more about what kind of wonderful exactly (and includes lots of photos) Enjoy! techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/adforpo...

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On my way to my 6th @pgconf.eu — this time in Riga ‼️ So excited to see #PostgreSQL people 🐘 & attend all these great talks. If you are there, come say hello at the Microsoft stand 👋

So cool to see "High Performance PostgreSQL for Rails" listed on the official PostgreSQL books wiki page. Thank you to @clairegiordano.bsky.social for the encouragement and help making that happen. Check it out 👉 www.postgresql.org/docs/books/

The Fundamental Interconnectedness of All Things with Boriss Mejías (E32) #TalkingPostgres talkingpostgres.com/episodes/the...

For @talkingpostgres.com @clairegiordano.bsky.social talked to Global Solutions Architect @tchorix.bsky.social about his marvelous brain, and ability to make connections that help people understand complex systems: talkingpostgres.com/episodes/the... Boriss wrote a blog too: dev.to/bmejias/how-...

I had a lot of fun talking to you Claire Giordano. Thanks for the invitation. I also wrote something about what inspired this topic dev.to/bmejias/how-... I hope the episode is useful to #PostgreSQL folks and anyone actually.

🎙️ New @talkingpostgres.com podcast Ep32 just published Boriss Mejías @tchorix.bsky.social explored the Fundamental Interconnectedness of All Things as a methodology for working with Postgres—& we connected lots of dots 🎧 talkingpostgres.com/episodes/the... 📺 youtu.be/S63usJYcw-k?...

Last week a lot of #PostgreSQL people had a wonderful time @pgconfnyc.bsky.social in NYC So I was inspired to write this post & share the PGConf NYC experience—with lots of photos 📸 of friends/teammates And to answer this Q: Why do ppl go to PGConf NYC? techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/adforpo...

Happening Wed Oct 8, a LIVE recording of the @talkingpostgres.com podcast w/guest @tchorix.bsky.social, about Postgres & The Fundamental Interconnectedness of All Things Join Discord to be part of the parallel live text chat—or listen once Talking Postgres Ep32 is published aka.ms/talkingpostg...

Happening Wed Oct 8, a LIVE recording of the @talkingpostgres.com podcast w/guest @tchorix.bsky.social, about Postgres & The Fundamental Interconnectedness of All Things Join Discord to be part of the parallel live text chat—or listen once Talking Postgres Ep32 is published aka.ms/talkingpostg...

Even a hydraulic jack can’t match the lifting capability of the middle word in “Portland International Jetport.” #monktoberfest

Hey #PostgreSQL ppl here at @pgconfnyc.bsky.social #PGConfNYC! Be sure to come say hello (I'll be in hallways, sessions, or the Microsoft booth) If you want to learn about "Ten Postgres Hacker Journeys—and what they teach us", I'm giving a talk today at 4:00pm EDT postgresql.us/events/pgcon...

What went wrong (& what went right) with AIO with Andres Freund (E30) #TalkingPostgres talkingpostgres.com/episodes/wha...

I love this deep dive session. Andres shares some unique insights from tackling hard problems through the lens of both the tech and the people.

🎙️ New @talkingpostgres.com podcast Ep31 just published! Andres Freund @anarazel.de explored what went wrong (& what went right) with AIO in Postgres 18. Featuring io_uring, prototypes, streaming reads, CI, & why it took too long 🎧 talkingpostgres.com/episodes/wha... 📺 youtu.be/bVei7-AyMJ8?...

Hello! For those just discovering the @talkingpostgres.com podcast—and those already on this 30-episodes & counting #TalkingPostgres journey with me—we just dropped a new 3-minute trailer (02:52 to be precise) & it is FUN 🔥 🎧 talkingpostgres.com/episodes/tal... 📺 youtu.be/ZWMb9qmTpSY?...

this is a GREAT podcast, in which @simonwillison.net goes on and on and really nails where this LLM crap does amazing things (SQL OH MY) and where it really doesn't. go listen.... I loved it, as we had just launched github.com/microsoft/wa... to componentize and apply policy to mcp tools....

🎙️ New @talkingpostgres.com #podcast Ep30 just published! Guest @simonwillison.net talked about AI for data engineers. We skipped hype & boosterism to chat about Postgres permissions, alt text, 150-line SQL queries, & pelicans on 🚲 🎧 talkingpostgres.com/episodes/ai-... 📺 youtu.be/8SAqeJHsmRM?...

I'm so looking forward to having the amazing @simonwillison.net on the @talkingpostgres.com #podcast again, to discuss AI for data engineers (& #PostgreSQL people) When? The LIVE recording is on Wed Aug 6th at 10am PDT Join us on Discord to be part of parallel live text chat aka.ms/TalkingPostg...

I'm so looking forward to having the amazing @simonwillison.net on the @talkingpostgres.com #podcast again, to discuss AI for data engineers (& #PostgreSQL people) When? The LIVE recording is on Wed Aug 6th at 10am PDT Join us on Discord to be part of parallel live text chat aka.ms/TalkingPostg...

New blog post 📒 Bits of engineering wisdom from a year of the #TalkingPostgres #podcast 🎙️ ft. highlights from the past year, from past 13 episodes with #PostgreSQL guests like Tom Lane, Melanie Plageman, Bruce Momjian, Dawn Wages, Affan Dar, & more! techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/adforpo...

The shift from developer to manager definitely changes things From Ep29 of the #TalkingPostgres #podcast: "I said yes, without fully reading the spec... There's a big contrast between the life as a developer and life as a manager." —Shireesh Thota Learn more starting at timestamp 05:12

It's another episode of your favorite podcast about your favorite database! We hope you have as much fun listening to this session with Shireesh as we did recording it. It's packed with interesting insights on managing engineering at scale, our open source efforts, and why we ❤️ Postgres.

🎙️ New #TalkingPostgres #podcast Ep29 just published! Shireesh Thota once dreamed of driving a bus. Instead, he fell for math, BASIC, & engineering—& now leads all database work at Microsoft. 🎧 talkingpostgres.com/episodes/how... 📺 youtu.be/jP8a_S2MjtY?... #PostgreSQL #Azure #VSCode #opensource

On Wed Jul 9 at 10am PDT, we're doing a LIVE recording of Ep29 of the #TalkingPostgres #podcast 🎙️ with guest Shireesh Thota—to talk about how he got started leading database teams. ➡️ Join us on Discord to be part of the parallel live text chat. Cal invite: aka.ms/TalkingPostg...

Want to showcase your open source project and get two free tickets to #GitHubUniverse?
Apply for the Open Source Zone by July 31: gh.io/open-source-...
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Scaling PostgreSQL at OpenAI: Lessons in Reliability, Efficiency, and Innovation by Charles Feddersen techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/adforpo...

Full disclosure: I'm a bit biased. But if you’re into #PostgreSQL (or open source more generally), @talkingpostgres.com might become your next favorite podcast 🎙️ Ep20 with Tom Lane—core team member, major contributor, Postgres committer—is a good place to start 🎧 talkingpostgres.com/episodes/how...

This was a particularly fun episode of Talking Postgres. Need some weekend listening? This could be it! 🐘

12 years of Postgres Weekly with Peter Cooper (E28) #TalkingPostgres talkingpostgres.com/episodes/12-...

🎙️ New #TalkingPostgres #podcast episode! Peter Cooper joined to talk about 12 years of Postgres Weekly—with QBASIC Usenet fanzines, the BBC big tent, lots of #PostgreSQL, weekly newsletters for 460K devs, & 1 very cheesy story 🧀 🎧 talkingpostgres.com/episodes/12-... 📺 youtu.be/F1eWSAVKxdY?...

Happening Wed 18 Jun at 12noon PDT (new time this time) is a LIVE recording of Ep28 of the #TalkingPostgres #podcast with guest Peter Cooper to talk about "12 years of Postgres Weekly" Join us on Discord for the parallel live text chat aka.ms/TalkingPostg... #PostgreSQL #PostgresWeekly

Happening Wed 18 Jun at 12noon PDT (new time this time) is a LIVE recording of Ep28 of the #TalkingPostgres #podcast with guest Peter Cooper to talk about "12 years of Postgres Weekly" Join us on Discord for the parallel live text chat aka.ms/TalkingPostg... #PostgreSQL #PostgresWeekly

🎉 Coming up next: LIVESTREAM 4 for #PosetteConf 💫 Join us on Thursday June 12th @ 8:00 - 14:00 CEST and watch all of the fantastic talks from 11 knowlegable #Postgres experts.💥 posetteconf.com #postgresql #databases #OpenSource #community

POSETTE: An Event for Postgres 2025 Livestream 4 kicks off today @ 8:00 AM CEST. Join live at posetteconf.com, plus the hallway track on the Microsoft Open Source Discord (discord.gg/microsoft-op... ) where you can chat with speakers, attendees, get swag & more. #PosetteConf youtu.be/yxte3EpAEwg?...

Backstage pic moments before the 1st @posetteconf.com livestream, with #PosetteConf chair @tgcmn1.bsky.social & co-host @floord.bsky.social as well as producer Dwight & the amazing Isaac Alves. So many good Postgres talks for y'all today! Join us at posetteconf.com LS1 on Tue June 10 at 8:00am PT

This week is @posetteconf.com, a free & virtual developer conference with 4 livestreams, 42 talks, & a live hallway track on Discord 📺 If you use #PostgreSQL 🐘 there's probably something here for you: posetteconf.com/2025/schedule/ 🧵(1) A quick story on why #PosetteConf matters to me 👇

Next week, #PosetteConf will happen Jun 10-12. Free & virtual If you want help navigating the 4 livestreams & 42 #PostgreSQL talks at POSETTE: An Event for Postgres (& to figure out the virtual hallway track), this ultimate guide post should do the trick techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/ADforPo...

At ##PGConfdev 2025 in Montreal, Masahiko Sawada of AWS delivered a talk about a popular subject amongst ##PostgreSQL hackers: "The Present and Future of VACUUM in PostgreSQL" (better pic in this post!)

I am disappointed in the AI discourse steveklabnik.com/writing/i-am...

A heartfelt thank you 🙏 from us (the organizers) to the ##PGConfdev 2025 attendees, speakers, sponsors, volunteers, & ppl who made the summits, Advanced Patch Feedback Session, Community Booth, & hallway track happen. Save the Date for next year: May 19-22, 2026 in Vancouver 🍁

New #PostgreSQL IDE in #VSCode dropped last week—& it's 🔥. It topped Postgres Weekly, hit #1 on Hacker News, & already has 60K installs Oh & it's not Azure-specific—& works with any Postgres. I'm so glad this FINALLY exists 💥 👀 Read the blog post: techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/adforpo...

Thanks to Cary Huang for capturing this pic of ##PGConfdev & ##PostgreSQL speaker Lætitia Avrot of EDB, who gave a talk in Montréal on "Rethinking PostgreSQL Performance in the Age of Monster Hardware"

Here is a pic of Gwen Shapira of Nile at ##PGConfdev 2025, giving her talk on "Re-engineering Postgres for Millions of Tenants" (We have so much gratitude 🙏 for all the great ##PostgreSQL talks 🐘 from all the great speakers—like Gwen!)