Hacking Postgres

Nov 12 2024 22 ep. 34 mins 10
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All about extensions, extension creators, and people doing cool things with Postgres. New episodes every week.

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S3E2: Heikki Linnakangas, Cofounder Neon

Nov 12 2024 27 mins  
Today we take a deep dive into the world of PostgreSQL extensions, featuring our conversation with Heikki Linnakangas, co-founder of Neon, an expert Postgres hacker, and contributor to pgvector. Heikki shares the fascinating story of how Neon was born in 2021, driven by the vision of creating an open-source platform akin to Aurora Serverless. He delves into the early challenges and

S3E1: Francesco Tisiot, Field CTO Aiven

Oct 22 2024 31 mins  
Joining Aiven in 2021, Francesco Tisiot works as a Field CTO and AI Lead. He serves as a technical advisor to clients and prospects, helping to meet their needs without the focus on sales, acting as a 'rented' CTO to provide expert guidance. Join us as we dive into Francesco's insightful perspectives on the Postgres community, where he challenges the notion of valuing years of expe

S2E10: DJ Patil and Ray Lane, GreatPoint Ventures

Jul 03 2024 44 mins  
Today we’re joined by Ray Lane and DJ Patil from GreatPoint Ventures. Ray, known for his pivotal role at Oracle during its turnaround, shares his journey from the US Army to top tech positions and eventually co-founding GreatPoint Ventures, where he supports entrepreneurs. DJ Patil – investor, entrepreneur, and former U.S. Chief Data Scientist – joins to dive into the evoluti

S2E9: Sai Srirampur, PeerDB

May 30 2024 41 mins  
Sai Srirampur is the co-founder of PeerDB and a veteran Postgres Solutions Engineer with experience at Citus Data and Microsoft. He has been at the forefront of optimizing and scaling Postgres for large data workloads and is now spearheading innovation in data movement and replication with PeerDB. In this episode, we'll discuss the challenges of tuning massive Postgres systems, rea

S2E8: Melanie Plageman, Microsoft

May 23 2024 36 mins  
In this episode, we talk Postgres committer Melanie Plagemean about her involvement with @PGConfdev, improvements to vacuum scheduling and auto vacuum configuration, the logical replication of DDL, and platforms such as CNCF and Kubernetes integrating with Postgres.Links mentioned:PGConf.devYouTube – CMU Database GroupPath To Citus Con Podcast@[email protected]

S2E7: Bharath Rupireddy, AWS

May 16 2024 30 mins  
Bharath Rupireddy has carved a niche for himself in the Postgres community since he began using the database system back in 2020. From his start at EnterpriseDB to making strides at Microsoft, and now contributing to the AWS open-source project, Bharath is entrenched in the inner workings of Postgres development. He has worked in many areas of Postgres such as WAL, Replication, pg_

S2E6: Gülçin Yıldırım Jelínek, EDB

May 09 2024 37 mins  
As the podcast host of The Builders, member of Postgres Women, and Staff Engineer at EDB, Gülçin Yıldırım Jelínek is passionate to see where this space will take us. We kick off Season 2 with Gülçin as she shares her journey in the tech industry, CloudNativePG, the impact of AI on Postgres, and the representation of women in the Postgres community.In this episode we explore

S2E5: Jelte Fennema-Nio, Principal Software Engineer, Microsoft

May 02 2024 31 mins  
Alongside his peers studying Systems Network Engineering, Jelte Fennema-Nio unearthed a security vulnerability within the framework of Postgres. Since then, Jelte joined the world of cybersecurity and network engineering. He is currently Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft working on Citus/ Postgres/ PgBouncer. In this episode we explore:Forking and the impact of commercial en

S2E4: Amit Kapila, Fujitsu India

Apr 25 2024 34 mins  
Amit Kapila is a PostgreSQL Committer and a Senior Director at Fujitsu India. Amit joins the show to share his contributions to logical replication enhancements (achieving highly available systems), his involvement in the PostgreSQL community, and his perspective on contributions from tech giants in advancing PostgreSQL features.In this episode we explore:Amit’s early work with P

S2E3: David Wheeler, Principal Architect, Tembo

Apr 18 2024 38 mins  
As Principal Architect at Tembo and the creator of PGXN, David Wheeler is a seminal figure in the Postgres world. Join us as we discuss David's tenure at The New York Times, his influential projects like Bricolage and pgTAP, and the game-changing database change management system, Sqitch. In this episode we explore:David Wheeler's transition from archaeology to databasesDatabase ma