Why it's fun to hack on Postgres performance with Tomas Vondra (E36) #TalkingPostgres talkingpostgres.com/episodes/why...

🎙️ New @talkingpostgres.com podcast Ep36 is out! Tomas Vondra, Postgres committer & long-time performance contributor, missed out on the Czechia/Canada hockey game 🏒 to talk about why it's fun to hack on Postgres performance 🐘 🎧 talkingpostgres.com/episodes/why... 📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=7a7M...

Hey Postgres friends: On Wed 18 Feb at 10am PT, I'll host a LIVE recording of Ep36 of the @talkingpostgres.com podcast w/guest Tomas Vondra, a PostgreSQL hacker at Microsoft Topic: Why it's fun to hack on Postgres performance Join to be part of the live text chat on Discord aka.ms/TalkingPostg...

How I got started with DBtune (& why we chose Postgres) with Luigi Nardi (E35) #TalkingPostgres talkingpostgres.com/episodes/how...

🎙️ New @talkingpostgres.com podcast Ep35 is out! Luigi Nardi, the founder of an automated database tuning startup, joined to dig into how he got started with DBtune & why they chose Postgres 🎧 talkingpostgres.com/episodes/how... 📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Rtk...

What Postgres developers can expect from PGConf.dev with Melanie Plageman (E34) #TalkingPostgres talkingpostgres.com/episodes/wha...

🎙️ New @talkingpostgres.com podcast Ep34 is out! Postgres committer & major contributor Melanie Plageman of Microsoft joined to dig into what developers & the community will get out of @pgconf.dev (CFP will close on Jan 16) 🎧 talkingpostgres.com/episodes/wha... 📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHs1...

Happening Wed Dec 10 at 10:00a PST, a LIVE recording of the #TalkingPostgres #podcast on Discord Guest: Karen Jex @karenhjex.bsky.social Topic: How I got started as a DBA (& in Postgres) Join us to be part of the parallel text chat! Cal invite w/ details on how to join: aka.ms/TalkingPostg...

Talking about experimentation on the Talking Postgres podcast by Rob Emanuele youtube.com/shorts/1STFr...

📣 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...

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-...

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

What went wrong (& what went right) with AIO with Andres Freund (E31) #TalkingPostgres talkingpostgres.com/episodes/wha...

🎙️ 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?...

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...

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

🎙️ 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?...

"I've got several hundred open source projects that I'm maintaining right now. And the reason I'm doing that is purely to make sure I never have to solve the same problem twice." -Simon Willison #TalkingPostgres E30

- October 8, 2025 @ 10:00am PT: Talking Postgres: The Fundamental Interconnectedness of All Things with Boriss Mejías (E32) - November 5, 2025 @ 10:00am PT: Talking Postgres: Building a dev experience for Postgres in VS Code with Rob Emanuele (E33) 2/2

Microsoft Open Source Discord - Upcoming Events (github.com/microsoft/op... ): - September 17, 2025 @ 10:00am PT: Talking Postgres: What went wrong (and what went right) with AIO with Andres Freund (E31) 1/N

AI for data engineers with Simon Willison (E30) #TalkingPostgres talkingpostgres.com/episodes/ai-...

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?...

🎙️ 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...

"...even at Microsoft in my first year I worked as a data scientist and in my second year, I made the switch to pure software engineering, to Postgres actually." -Arda Aytekin #TalkingPostgres E13

"I think these are my best days. [...] That's what I prefer to do. Spend a lot of time on tough problems and then find beautiful solutions." -Derk van Veen #TalkingPostgres E12

How I got started leading database teams with Shireesh Thota (E29) #TalkingPostgres talkingpostgres.com/episodes/how...

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...

🎙️ 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

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...

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

"I don't like benchmarking, but it's also often one of the highest impact things you can do ... I want to say if you managed to answer the question that you're trying to answer, though, very often the question only starts appearing once you run a bunch of benchmarks" -Marco Slot #TalkingPostgres E11

"Almost everyone that's run benchmarks for a significant amount of time, they built their own sort of automation to run the specific benchmarks they needed to run, & then probably they shared it with people & then no one used it or like a few people used it." -Jelte Fennema-Nio #TalkingPostgres E11

"So one of the problems that we had doing that work was for really high scale sites. Either they had a monitoring system that really didn't cover the things that we needed in Postgres or they had a system like it just couldn't scale high enough." -Rob Treat #TalkingPostgres E10

"...pganalyze when it started out was too small to sustain itself as a company. And so I was essentially running it as a side project. For example, when I was at Citus Data luckily the founders of Citus Data were, very generous in allowing that." -Lukas Fittl #TalkingPostgres E10

"...back in 2006, we started a company. We were using Postgres as our main kind of data store. And we got into challenges into scaling the Postgres database back then. That's many Postgres releases ago. And so of course, replication was, still in its infancy..." -Lukas Fittl #TalkingPostgres E10

"...having spent a lot of time in support for databases was really valuable because that's the organization which talks to users, which talks to customers. So you kind of get the other side of the story as well." -Peter Farkas #TalkingPostgres E27

How I got started with FerretDB (& why we chose Postgres) with Peter Farkas (E27) #TalkingPostgres talkingpostgres.com/episodes/how...

Often my @talkingpostgres.com #podcast guests are from the #PostgreSQL contributor community—but this month it was different! Peter Farkas & team chose Postgres as the engine for FerretDB. Listen to hear Peter's surprising founder story & why they chose Postgres Also: tell your friends! 👀

New episode of @talkingpostgres.com #podcast 🎙️ In Ep27, Peter Farkas of FerretDB shares how a Himalayan trek led to an open source MongoDB alternative on Postgres (& DocumentDB) Plus: FerretDB's original name, and Trappist cheese 🧀 🎧 talkingpostgres.com/episodes/how... 📺 youtu.be/dQfD00bDMqo?...

"So the thing for me is that the work that I do, I never want to have to solve the same problem twice, ever. That's the most frustrating thing is when you sit down to solve the problem. You're like, "wow, I solved this before" and I'm gonna have to do it again." -Simon Willison #TalkingPostgres E01

"I've always been a little fascinated by, making complex things easy to use and simple to understand. And so for me, SQL was that it was filling a gap where some of the things are very complex." -Dimitri Fontaine #TalkingPostgres E09

"One of the reasons is that the committee thinks that users are ill served by claims that the word "structured" accurately describes the language, which it does not. S-Q-L is not very structured, but it is a query language." -Vik Fearing #TalkingPostgres E09

"I think by the time I was around 10, I got my own first computer, which was an Amiga, and I started to learn BASIC on that. And then I started, moved on to C programming. [...] I also wrote a game when I was around 15 with a friend who did the graphics." - Heikki Linnakangas #TalkingPostgres E08