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Talking Postgres is a podcast for developers who love Postgres. Guests join Claire Giordano each month to discuss the human side of PostgreSQL, databases, and open source. With amazing guests such as Boriss Mejías, Melanie Plageman, Tom Lane, Simon Willison, Robert Haas, and Andres Freund, Talking Postgres is guaranteed to get you thinking. Recorded live on Discord by the Postgres team at Microsof... more

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What does it take to make Postgres and Azure fit together cleanly, like puzzle pieces? In Episode 39 of Talking Postgres, Adam Prout—distinguished engineer at Microsoft and a founding architect of Azure HorizonDB—joins Claire to trace his engineering... more

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It’s rare for developers to genuinely love their database, so why does Postgres earn that kind of loyalty? In Episode 38 of Talking Postgres, Gwen Shapira, co‑founder of Nile, joins Claire to trace her path from operating Oracle at scale, through a l... more

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Why does SQL feel so approachable to some developers, and why do some of them end up spending their careers in the data layer? In Episode 37 of Talking Postgres, Charles Feddersen, who leads product for Postgres at Microsoft, joins Claire to talk abo... more

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Why would anyone willingly spend weeks chasing a slow query, knowing they might hit dead ends along the way? In Episode 36 of Talking Postgres, Tomas Vondra—Postgres committer and long‑time performance contributor—joins Claire to explain why hacking ... more

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Recent Guests

Adam Prout
Distinguished Engineer at Microsoft, HorizonDB lead
Microsoft
Episode: From MemSQL to HorizonDB, an engineer's journey with Adam Prout
Gwen Shapira
Founder, co-founder and CPO at Nile
Nile
Episode: How I went from Oracle to Postgres (with a big NoSQL detour) with Gwen Shapira
Charles Feddersen
Director of product for all things Postgres at Microsoft
Microsoft
Episode: Building Postgres services on Azure with Charles Feddersen
Tomas Vondra
Postgres major contributor and committer
Postgres team at Microsoft
Episode: Why it's fun to hack on Postgres performance with Tomas Vondra
Luigi Nardi
Founder and CEO of DBtune, a Postgres database startup focused on automated database tuning.
DBtune
Episode: How I got started with DBtune (& why we chose Postgres) with Luigi Nardi
Melanie Plageman
Postgres committer and major contributor at Microsoft, organizer of PGConf Dev.
Microsoft
Episode: What Postgres developers can expect from PGConf.dev with Melanie Plageman
Rob Emanuele
Principal engineer at Microsoft on the Azure team, focused on developing generative AI tooling.
Microsoft
Episode: Building a dev experience for Postgres in VS Code with Rob Emanuele
Boriss Mejías
Holistic system software engineer at EDB
EDB
Episode: The Fundamental Interconnectedness of All Things with Boriss Mejías
Shireesh Thota
CVP for all the Azure databases at Microsoft, responsible for engineering and product management.
Microsoft
Episode: How I got started leading database teams with Shireesh Thota

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Claire Giordano
Host of the show; long-time PostgreSQL contributor and community advocate.

Reviews

5.0 out of 5 stars from 17 ratings
  • A Niche Gem

    Path To Citus Con is the niche gem anyone involved with Postgres needs in their lives. Claire and Pino are engaging and knowledgeable hosts and their guests always have something great to share.

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    5
    kjb0514
    United States3 years ago

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Hosts are knowledgeable and guests always share valuable insights.
Great for learning practical Postgres perspectives and community tips.
A niche gem for Postgres fans and contributors.

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Building Postgres services on Azure with Charles Feddersen
Q: What was your origin story as a developer and how did you get into databases?
Charles describes starting with classic ASP and Microsoft Access in Melbourne, realizing he preferred working with databases over web front-ends, and eventually moving through SQL Server, distributed databases, and into Postgres with Citus at Microsoft. His path highlights a long trajectory from hands-on database work to product leadership focused on scalable Postgres services.
From MemSQL to HorizonDB, an engineer's journey with Adam Prout
Q: How does HorizonDB relate to the Socrates paper architecture for cloud databases?
HorizonDB follows a Socrates-inspired model with separate storage for logs and data pages, leveraging specialized storage for transaction logs and Blobstore-backed data pages to reduce latency and improve durability, while keeping processing on compute nodes efficient and tightly integrated with cloud storage.
From MemSQL to HorizonDB, an engineer's journey with Adam Prout
Q: Can you define Azure HorizonDB for listeners who may not be familiar with it?
Azure HorizonDB is a cloud-native Postgres service built specifically for Azure, designed to push storage work into a separate storage layer and run Postgres compute nodes only for application logic, while durability and replication are handled by the storage system.
Why it's fun to hack on Postgres performance with Tomas Vondra
Q: What is the best way to learn about patch review?
Engaging in patch reviews is a great way to learn about code and understand performance issues.
Why it's fun to hack on Postgres performance with Tomas Vondra
Q: What is the typical timeframe for solving performance issues?
It varies; some issues can be resolved quickly, while others may take weeks of investigation and experimentation.

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