November Meetup Recording And our last 2025 recording is here! Check out Jay Miller's talk!

PG DATA CfP is open! We’re building a new Postgres conference series focused on education, community, and collaboration. 👉 Submit your talk proposal here: sessionize.com/pg-data-2026 Join us in June! #PGData2026 #PostgreSQL #PostgresCommunity #MidwestTech #ChicagoTech

We had our last meetup of 2025, and we want to thank everyone who attended, and who supported us during 2025. An of course, very special thanks to Jay Miller, who present at both our first and last meetups!

October PUG Recording Almost a month late, but I hope you enjoy it!

Call for Proposals is NOW OPEN for #PGDATA2026!! Ready to submit your talk proposal? Submit here: sessionize.com/pg-data-2026 #PostgreSQL #PGDATA2026 #CallForProposals #TechConference #Databases #PostgresCommunity #SoftwareEngineering #OpenSource #DataEngineering #CloudComputing #ChicagoTech

Check out my new repo: logs_processing logs_processing is finally on GitHub!

Prairie Postgres Birthday Meetup Huge thanks to everyone who came to the Prairie Postgres meetup and celebrated our first birthday with us!

Become a Gold Sponsor of PG DATA 2026! www.linkedin.com/posts/2026-p...

October meetup - zoom version! www.meetup.com/illinois-pra...

Join PG DATA 2026 as a Platinum Sponsor! Become our true partner in advancing the PostgreSQL ecosystem, helping fund venue costs, speaker travel, and low ticket prices to grow the community. Find more at 2026.pg-data.org/sponsors/ #pgdata2026#postgresql www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Did you notice that we have all important dates published on our website? Our CfP will open on October 20, and we are looking forward to your submissions! 2026.pg-data.org hashtag#postgresql hashtag#postgresconference hashtag#PGDATA hashtag#callforproposals hashtag#cfp

How I learned to use wal_inspect It has been a while since last time I blogged about any real-life mysteries I resolved. Here is one which I am really happy about, because it took a while and it was not obvious. Before that, I didn't know how to read WAL files, and now I do!

A very abbreviated version of my New pgBadger talk will be up at P99 online conference! www.linkedin.com/posts/henrie...

September PUG recording I am glad we had an option to replay this talk from PG Day Chicago one more time! If you didn't have a chance to join us, here is the recording - enjoy!

Prairie Postgers October meetup! There will be a lot of "me" in October! www.meetup.com/illinois-pra...

Did you notice that we have all the important dates listed? 2026.pg-data.org Our CfP will be open on October 20, and we commit to sending acceptance notifications by February 1. And did you notice that the Early Bird tickets are already available?! Chicago is better in the summer!

Thank you everyone who came to listen to my presentation today! Here are the slides.

@pg-data.bsky.social Become our Community Partner! It's a free sponsorship designed for local meetup groups and other qualifying nonprofit organizations. Sign up to get two free tickets and your logo on the conference website. Find more at 2026.pg-data.org/sponsors/ #pgdata #postgresql #conference

@pg-data.bsky.social Become our Community Partner! It's a free sponsorship designed for local meetup groups and other qualifying nonprofit organizations. Sign up to get two free tickets and your logo on the conference website. Find more at 2026.pg-data.org/sponsors/ #pgdata #postgresql #conference

@pg-data.bsky.social Become a PG DATA 2026 Sponsor! Call for Sponsors for PG DATA 2026 is now open! Find out more about sponsorship options in our prospectus: 2026.pg-data.org/pdf/PG-DATA-... #PGDATA2026 #PostgreSQL #Sponsorship #TechCommunity #MidwestTech

July PUG recording! If you missed Prairie PUG meetup, here is the recording! There will be no meetup in August - we will see you on September 10. Please keep an eye on announcements!

July Prairie Postgres PUG I am very thankful to everyone who attended yesterday's meetup! I must be completely honest: I am always pleasantly surprised when people attend our summer meetups. There are so many better things you can do in Chicago in summer!

Just announced: PG DATA 2026 Chicago is better in summer! Our inaugural event, PG DATA 2026, will kick off 363 days from today, and we want YOU to be a part of it!

I will be speaking at ADBIS 2025 in September! I won't be surprised if nobody in my professional network knows what ADBIS is. But for me, this is a very significant and special event because I witnessed its inception and participated in the first four conferences of this series. In 1993, I just…

If anybody in my network is an LPI member, I am running for the Board; voting starts today and continues until June 21. The information about candidates (including myself) is available at www.lpi.org/elections/20... Candidate Questions: discuss.lpi.org/t/2025-candi... #linux #foss #boardelections

Community Summit at PGConf.dev Last week at PGConf.dev, I participated in the Community Summit. It was a new for me, and a very interesting experience, and I hope we will do it again!

We had a first Community Summit and pgConf.Dev yesterday! www.linkedin.com/posts/henrie...

Postgres Meets Python recording! I am happy to share that the recording of the Postgres Meets Python meetup with Jay Miller is now available! Enjoy!

PG Day Chicago 2025 We did it! Thank you so much to everyone who made this event a success! Starting with the great talks selection (thank you, CfP committee!), to our amazing sponsors (thank you, Pat Wright!), to volunteers, to attendees! My highlights were having multiple new speakers, new…

Please join us for Developers Summit on May 20! www.meetup.com/illinois-pra... #postgresql #appdevs #orm

If you are unable attend in person, please join us on Zoom: www.meetup.com/illinois-pra...

March Chicago PUG Meetup recording I am happy to share this meetup - it was an amazing event!

There will be a lot of #postgresql in Chicago during the last week of April! Although our primary focus is on PG Day, we hope you won't miss an opportunity to attend a Q&A session with one of the PG Day speaker @kjaymiller.com Please register using the link below. www.meetup.com/illinois-pra...

How to register for PG Day Chicago I am getting a lot of questions about the PG Day Chicago registration process from the first-time participants. If you are one the people who got lost, here are step-by-step instructions!

Please Welcome Prairie Postgres! In this post, I want to formally introduce Prairie Postgres, a project that has kept me really busy for the past several months. The most important mission of Prairie Postgres is creating Postgres educational opportunities in the United States Midwest States. Keep…

In my blog post "In 2025, I want.." I mentioned several things I wanted to focus on, including devoting more time and effort to education. So, where am I now, three months into 2025?

On March 25, Chicago PUG members gathered one more time at the Training Center of the DRW Holdings office for our monthly meetup. Our speaker was Ryan Booz, an Advocate at Redgate; he presented the talk Intro to database migrations with Flyway.

DevOpsDay Chicago 2025 Yesterday, I attended DevOpsDay for the first time and gave an Ignite talk for the first time. When the organizers first approached me, I foolishly thought that it would be the same as a Lighting talk at a Postgres conference, and I said "yes." It turned out to be the most…

PG Day Chicago: the talks I am most excited about. Part II Now - to the afternoon sessions (see Part I for morning sessions) Paul Whalen. Who needs Kafka?.. Now, I am really excited about this talk for a number of reasons. First, Paul is an active Chicago PUG member, and he first presented this…

Last year, I really enjoyed blogging about the PG Day Chicago talks I was most excited about, so this year, I decided to do it again.

Chicago PUG February Meetup recording Hi Postgres community, apologies for the delay one more time - here is the recording of our February meetup! If you didn't have a chance to attend in person or virtual, please take a moment to watch! You won't be disappointed! Also, one more reminder that our…

Going 🔴 LIVE from SCaLE 22x @socallinuxexpo.bsky.social with Henrietta Dombrovskaya @hettied.bsky.social and we're talking #PostgreSQL! YouTube Link: youtube.com/live/ldx7AXr... #Postgres #Database #OpenSource #SCaLE22x

Chicago PUG March meetup is on March 25! Come to learn something new about Postgres and meet other community members! www.meetup.com/chicago-post...

We have a new venue! Join us at the Madison 540 Conference Center at 540 W. Madison Street in the Loop of Chicago! https://buff.ly/4f7a6Zn @PostgreSQL #postgres #conference

Last day of the Early Bird discount for PG Day Chicago!!! 2025.pgdaychicago.org// Register here: postgresql.us/events/pgday... #postgresql #pgdaychicago

Sometimes, everything is slow! A couple of months ago, one of our customers complained that "today, starting from 11 AM, everything became slow!" Keep reading to find out why! hdombrovskaya.wordpress.com/2024/11/30/s...