How to get Postgres ready for the next 100 million users
Join Claire and Pino as they talk with Citus and Postgres open source team members to explore how to get Postgres ready for the next 100 million users. What will future Postgres users look like? How will the Postgres development process evolve with more users? What are the common challenges faced by Postgres users?
Citus open source team members Abdullah Ustuner and Burak Yucesoy are joined by Postgres open source teammates Melanie Plageman and Samay Sharmaβand co-hosts Claire Giordano and Pino de Candiaβin this episode of Path To Citus Con. Listen to the deep dive on what it means to scale the code and the community far beyond the Postgres world of today.
Some links from the show in the order they were mentioned:
- Additional IO Observability in Postgres: Melanie's talk at Citus Con 2023
- Optimizing Postgres for write heavy workloads ft. Checkpoint and WAL configs: Samay's talk at Citus Con 2023
- The Design of Postgres, by Michael Stonebraker and Lawrence A. Rowe, 1986
- HyperLogLog
- PostGIS
- timescale/pgspot
Creators and Guests
Host
Claire Giordano
Claire Giordano is head of the Postgres & Citus open source community initiatives at Microsoft. Claire has served in leadership roles in engineering, product management, and product marketing at Sun Microsystems, Amazon/A9, and Citus Data. At Sun, Claire managed the engineering team that created Solaris Zones, and led the effort to open source Solaris.
Host
Pino de Candia
Pino de Candia is a software dev manager at Microsoft since 2020 and is currently working on the Citus open source project. Pino previously worked on the managed PostgreSQL database service in Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL, which includes Citus on Azure support for distributed PostgreSQL. Pino has lived in New Orleans since 2017.
Producer
Aaron Wislang
Open Source Engineering + Developer Relations at @Microsoft + @Azure βοΈ | @golang k8s π§ π π¦ β π·π· πΉπ¨π¦ | π· π++ (inc. bivalent) | @aaronw.dev (on π¦sky)
Producer
Carol Smith
Senior Program Manager at Microsoft in the Citus Community team. Previously at GitHub and Google. Horseback rider, cook, and armchair movie critic.
