New #TalkingPostgres #podcast Ep32 just published!

Boriss Mejías @tchorix of EDB explored the Fundamental Interconnectedness of All Things as a methodology for working with Postgres—& we connected lots of things, from WAL files to jazz to database modeling to synchronous replication and OpenAI

Boriss is a fabulous human & it was such a happy thing that he joined me on this podcast episode! I am happy with the conversation & I hope y'all are too!

Listen wherever you get your podcasts—and tell your #database & #OpenSource & #Postgres friends!
https://talkingpostgres.com/episodes/the-fundamental-interconnectedness-of-all-things-with-boriss-mejias
https://youtu.be/S63usJYcw-k?si=ampjlwAdhptd7wp_

Happening Wed Oct 8, a LIVE recording of the #TalkingPostgres podcast with amazing guest @tchorix of EDB, to talk about #PostgreSQL & 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 on Friday (we always publish this monthly pod on a Friday...)
https://aka.ms/talkingpostgres-ep32-cal

Tell your database friends! Or your Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy friends... #OpenSource #podcast #Postgres #database

New #TalkingPostgres #podcast Ep31 just published!

@AndresFreundTec explored what went wrong (& what went right) with AIO in Postgres 18. Featuring io_uring, prototypes, streaming reads, CI, & why Andres thinks it definitely took too long

If you're looking to understand what it takes to land a big architectural change like AIO in Postgres, this episode is for you

https://talkingpostgres.com/episodes/what-went-wrong-what-went-right-with-aio-with-andres-freund
https://youtu.be/bVei7-AyMJ8?feature=shared

Hello! For those just discovering the #TalkingPostgres #podcast—and those who are already regular listeners of this 30-episodes & counting pod—we just dropped a new 3-minute trailer (02:52 to be precise) & it is FUN

This trailer was so much fun to produce and I hope you love it. (Also: share it with friends who will enjoy. And subscribe. And drop a review. Word of mouth is the best fuel to keep a podcast going.)

Gratitude to Isaac Alves & @asw for collaborating on this.

And to all the a-ma-zing podcast guests including those whose voices appear in this trailer: @simon, David Rowley, Tom Lane, @pwramsey, Shireesh Thota, @BajoranEngineer, @melanieplageman, Robert Haas, & Thomas Munro!

https://talkingpostgres.com/episodes/talking-postgres-with-claire-giordano-trailer
https://youtu.be/ZWMb9qmTpSY?feature=shared

New #TalkingPostgres #podcast Ep30 just dropped!

Amazing guest @simon joined to talk about AI for data engineers. We skipped the hype & boosterism to dive into #PostgreSQL permissions, alt text, Pulitzer-worthy tooling, jagged frontiers, safety and security, 150-line SQL queries, GitHub Codespaces, the daily-changing capabilities of the models, & OF COURSE: pelicans on bicycles

https://talkingpostgres.com/episodes/ai-for-data-engineers-with-simon-willison
https://youtu.be/8SAqeJHsmRM?feature=shared

I'm so looking forward to having the amazing @simon on the #TalkingPostgres #podcast again, this time to discuss "AI for data engineers"

When? The LIVE recording will be on Wed Aug 6th at 10am PDT, on the Microsoft Open Source Discord

Join us for the LIVE recording if you want to be part of parallel live text chat https://aka.ms/TalkingPostgres-Ep30-cal

And of course you can listen to the episode after it is published. Subscribe on TalkingPostgres.com—or wherever you get your podcasts

New blog post Bits of engineering wisdom from a year of the #TalkingPostgres #podcast

featuring highlights from 13 episodes in the past year with amazing #PostgreSQL guests including: Tom Lane, Bruce Momjian, Daniel Gustafsson, David Rowley, Melanie Plageman, Robert Haas, Affan Dar, Andrew Atkinson, @BajoranEngineer, Peter Cooper, Peter Farkas, Pino de Candia, & Shireesh Thota

Hope y'all enjoy it! And big +1 to @asw for co-producing this monthly pod with me https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/adforpostgresql/bits-of-wisdom-from-a-year-of-talking-postgres/4434622

New episode 29 of the #TalkingPostgres #podcast is out!

Shireesh Thota (CVP of Azure Databases at Microsoft) once dreamed of driving a bus. Instead, he fell for math, BASIC, and engineering—and now leads all database work at Microsoft.

We talk about:

The shift from developer to manager (if only people came with documentation)
Why databases are a microcosm of computer science
Why Microsoft must contribute to #PostgreSQL open source—not just consume it
Whether Shireesh has a favorite database?
A new #VSCode extension for Postgres

You should listen! You will enjoy it:

https://talkingpostgres.com/episodes/how-i-got-started-leading-database-teams-with-shireesh-thota
https://youtu.be/jP8a_S2MjtY?si=d9USWZ90l5IbOWfz

Please boost so your Postgres friends will discover the episode

And if you subscribe, you'll never miss an episode: https://talkingpostgres.com/subscribe

Also: Big thanks to @asw of Microsoft who co-produces this show with me and is amazing to work with!

On Wed Jul 9 at 10am PDT, we're doing a LIVE recording of Ep29 of the #TalkingPostgres #podcast with guest Shireesh Thota—to talk about how he got started leading database teams.

Join us on Discord to be part of the parallel live text chat. Cal invite with instructions on how to join the Discord: https://aka.ms/TalkingPostgres-Ep29-cal

#PostgreSQL #community #opensource #Microsoft #Azure #Postgres
As always, boosts appreciated

If you work with #PostgreSQL or just love learning more about the people behind #OpenSource projects, check out the #TalkingPostgres #podcast

Ep20 with Tom Lane—core team, major contributor, committer—is a favorite

Listen to Tom Lane's episode wherever you get your podcasts: https://talkingpostgres.com/episodes/how-i-got-started-as-a-developer-in-postgres-with-tom-lane

Boosts are always a good way to help friends discover the show

#Databases #Postgres #Developers

https://talkingpostgres.com/episodes/how-i-got-started-as-a-developer-in-postgres-with-tom-lane

New episode 28 of the #TalkingPostgres #podcast is out!

Peter Cooper (@cooperx86)—the witty, irreverent, & wicked smart programmer & editor-in-chief of Cooperpress—joined me to talk about "12 years of Postgres Weekly"

We started near the Prime Meridian and time-traveled through his early days writing QBASIC fanzines on Usenet, all the way to building a newsletter empire that reaches nearly half a million devs each week—with his own geeky, opinionated tone of voice.

Spam filters, photoshop, & one very cheesy story included. Give it a listen & please boost

https://talkingpostgres.com/episodes/12-years-of-postgres-weekly-with-peter-cooper

https://youtu.be/F1eWSAVKxdY?si=YLeHXVw5inGzNOSS

This week is a LIVE recording of the next episode of the monthly #TalkingPostgres podcast

Guest: Peter Farkas
Ep27 topic: How I got started with FerretDB (& why we chose Postgres)

Where: Microsoft Open Source Discord
When: Wed May 7 @ 10am PDT

Boosts appreciated, pls tell your #PostgreSQL & #FerretDB friends

Calendar invite: https://aka.ms/TalkingPostgres-Ep27-cal

What's new with Postgres at Microsoft? The 2025 edition of our annual blog post is now live.

Over the past year, the team at Microsoft who work on Postgres has contributed across multiple fronts:

New features in Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Flexible Server
Code contributions to Postgres 18 (including async I/O!)
Open source work on the Citus extension
Contributions to the Postgres open source community—things like @posetteconf, helping make @pgconfdev happen, the Talking Postgres #podcast, and sponsoring #PostgreSQL conferences around the globe

This year's blog post includes a hand-made infographic that maps out the major workstreams—plus highlights, explanations, links, and shout-outs to some of the many people behind the work.

If you care about PostgreSQL—as a user, contributor, or fan—I hope you'll give it a read.

Read the full blog post on Microsoft Tech Community: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/adforpostgresql/whats-new-with-postgres-at-microsoft-2025-edition/4410710

New episode of #TalkingPostgres #podcast

Bruce Momjian, #PostgreSQL core team member, joined me on Ep26 to talk about open source leadership—with rabbitholes on servant leadership, the art of public speaking, the power of gratitude, & bow ties

Boosts appreciated to help more people discover the podcast

https://talkingpostgres.com/episodes/open-source-leadership-with-bruce-momjian

https://youtu.be/gYG3FP-Csho?feature=shared

New episode of #TalkingPostgres #podcast (we're up to Ep25!)

Dawn Wages @BajoranEngineer: #Django dev, Python Software Foundation board chair, & author of upcoming book "Domain-driven Django"—joined the pod to chat about why so many Python developers Just Use Postgres

Give it a listen wherever you get your podcasts. And give it a boost !

Dawn is a gem & this conversation was FUN. #PostgreSQL #OpenSource #Python #Postgres

https://talkingpostgres.com/episodes/why-python-developers-just-use-postgres-with-dawn-wages

https://youtu.be/leir3xJ4Klo?feature=shared

The LIVE recording for the #TalkingPostgres #podcast is happening on Wed 12 Mar at 10:00am PDT. Hope you can join us (or at least tell your database friends!) Boosts are always, always appreciated

This is Ep25 & the guest will be Dawn Wages @BajoranEngineer who is director of Community & Developer Relations at Anaconda—& will be talking about "Why Python developers just use Postgres"

#databases #python #django #OpenSource #PostgreSQL #Postgres

https://aka.ms/talkingpostgres-ep25-cal

What do you enjoy about mentoring? So much fun talking to @robertmhaas of EDB on the #TalkingPostgres #podcast in February, about why he kickstarted a new mentoring program for #PostgreSQL developers.

If you haven't listened to the episode with Robert yet, maybe this weekend is the perfect time!

https://talkingpostgres.com/episodes/why-mentor-postgres-developers-with-robert-haas

New episode of the #TalkingPostgres #podcast

#PostgreSQL committer & major contributor @robertmhaas joined to talk about mentoring in Postgres: why it matters, his own experiences, what would Tom Lane do, learning via patch review, the new PostgreSQL Hackers Mentoring program, & the challenges of working with humans!

Hope you enjoy the episode as much as I did. Robert is so much fun to talk to. As always, boosts are a gift & will help future Postgres people discover the pod.

https://talkingpostgres.com/episodes/why-mentor-postgres-developers-with-robert-haas

https://youtu.be/4wSDnx8di6o?feature=shared

Happening Wed Feb 5th at 10:00am PST, a LIVE recording of Ep24 of the #TalkingPostgres #podcast with guest @robertmhaas, a #PostgreSQL major contributor & committer. Topic = Why mentor Postgres developers?

Mark your calendar with the link below to join us LIVE on Discord & be part of the parallel text chat—or subscribe to the podcast at TalkingPostgres.com & listen after Ep24 is published, wherever you get your podcasts https://aka.ms/TalkingPostgres-Ep24-cal

Also if you're a fan of the podcast, please boost to tell your friends!