Best Postgres Podcasts (2025)

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600 Times Faster Analytics | Scaling Postgres 396 18:48

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In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss using Postgres queries in ClickHouse, faster faceted search, max_connections & migrations and different scan types. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit: https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/396-600-times-faster-analytics/ Want to learn more about Postgres performan…

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What Postgres developers can expect from PGConf.dev with Melanie Plageman 1:16:46

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What do conference planning, hacking weddings, and cat-free coding sessions have to do with Postgres? In Episode 34 of Talking Postgres, Melanie Plageman—Postgres committer and major contributor from Microsoft—joins Claire for a lively deep dive into what developers can expect at PGConf.dev 2026 as Postgres turns 30. We explore new content formats,…

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max_connections vs migrations 44:40

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Nik and Michael discuss max_connections, especially in the context of increasing it to solve problems like migrations intermittently failing(!) Here are some links to things they mentioned: max_connections https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/runtime-config-connection.html#GUC-MAX-CONNECTIONS Tweet about deployments vs connections issue https://…

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Just use Postgres with Denis Magda 1:07:59

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In this episode, Aaron talks with Dennis Magda, author of Just Use Postgres!, about the wide world of modern Postgres, from JSON and full-text search to generative AI, time-series storage, and even message queues. They explore when Postgres should be your go-to tool, when it shouldn’t, and why understanding its breadth helps developers build better…

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Building search for AI systems with Chroma CTO Hammad Bashir 1:06:43

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Hammad Bashir, CTO of Chroma, joins the show to break down how modern vector search systems are actually built from local, embedded databases to massively distributed, object-storage-backed architectures. We dig into Chroma’s shared local-to-cloud API, log-structured storage on object stores, hybrid search, and why retrieval-augmented generation (R…

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Trusting Agentic AI with Dr. Dawn Song 35:36

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In this partnership episode between Hanselminutes and the ACM Bytecast, Scott talks with Dr. Dawn Song, MacArthur Fellow and leading researcher in computer security and AI and co-director at the Berkeley Center for Responsible Decentralized Intelligence about how privacy-preserving computation, fairness, and accountability can help us design intell…

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The $100M Problem: How Lyft's Data Platform Prevents ML Failures with Ritesh Varyani at Lyft 25:46

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In this episode of the Data Engineering Show, host Benjamin Wagner sits down with Ritesh Varyani, Staff Software Engineer at Lyft, to explore how the company manages a sophisticated multi-engine data stack serving thousands of engineers, while simultaneously integrating AI across infrastructure and user-facing analytics. What You'll Learn: How to a…

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Page Tables 46:39

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Page tables provide the mapping between virtual memory and physical memory for each process. This means it needs to be as efficient and as fast as possible. I explore the inner workings of page tables in this episode. 0:00 Intro 2:00 Virtual Memory ⁃ ⁃ 8:00 MMU 10:00 Page Tables ⁃ ⁃ ⁃ ⁃ ⁃ ⁃ ⁃ 11:30 Single Table Byte Addressability ⁃ ⁃ ⁃ ⁃ ⁃ ⁃ ⁃ ⁃ 1…

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Scaling DuckDB in the cloud with MotherDuck CEO Jordan Tigani 1:05:15

1h ago1:05:15

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In this episode of Database School, Aaron Francis sits down with Jordan Tigani, co-founder and CEO of MotherDuck, to break down what DuckDB is, how MotherDuck hosts it in the cloud, and why analytics workloads are shifting toward embedded databases. They dig into Duck Lake, pricing models, scaling strategies, and what it really takes to build a mod…

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Human Agency in a Digital World with Marcus Fontoura 34:51

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Marcus Fontoura has led engineering teams at IBM, Yahoo, Google, and Microsoft...building the very systems that power our digital lives. Now, as the author of Human Agency in a Digital World, he’s asking a more profound question: how do we stay in charge of the technology we create? Scott and Marcus explore what it means to move from being passenge…

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16 Times Faster Join Plans | Scaling Postgres 395 16:11

2h ago16:11

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In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss a patch that can plan joins 16 times faster, the best way to record text values, extensions via image volumes with CloudNativePG and using pg_partman vs rolling your own. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit: https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/395-16-times-faster-…

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Daniel Temkin and the Beauty of Esoteric Languages 35:12

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What happens when code stops being useful and starts being art? Scott talks with artist and programmer Daniel Temkin about his new book Forty-Four Esolangs, a deep dive into the world of esoteric programming languages...systems designed not to ship software, but to provoke thought. They explore how absurdity, constraint, and humor reveal something …

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MTAR T3D Sessions: How your AWS decisions today shape your flexibility, cost, and vendor dependencies 12:28

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In this special AWS-focused T3D segment, Command Prompt Founder Joshua “JD” Drake sits down with Greg Dostatni, Senior DBA at Command Prompt, to unpack a topic that every team running PostgreSQL in the cloud eventually needs to face: how your AWS decisions today shape your flexibility, cost, and vendor dependencies tomorrow. Drawing on years of exp…

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5 Times Faster Aggregates | Scaling Postgres 394 16:28

15d ago16:28

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In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss my Black Friday / Cyber Monday course deal, the job security that LLMs provide, new Postgres releases and why you should hard your datbase. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit: https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/394-five-times-faster-aggregates/ Want to learn mor…

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The Digital Runway: IT at the Philadelphia Airport with Camille Tomlin 32:15

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Scott sits down with Camille Tomlin, Head of IT at Philadelphia International Airport, to explore the intersection of aviation, technology, and leadership. They discuss how airports are transforming digitally — with IoT, data analytics, and smart infrastructure — and how Camille leads a team that bridges city government, airlines, and millions of p…

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CPU and Kernel Page Faults 48:37

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Page faults occurs when the process tries to access a memory that isn’t backed by a physical page kernel raises a fault which loads a page. It happens on first access, stack expansion, COW, swap and much more. However it comes with a cost. In this episode of the backend engineering show I dissect the need and the cost page faults in the kernel. 0:0…

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Job Security? | Scaling Postgres 393 14:41

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In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss my Black Friday / Cyber Monday course deal, the job security that LLMs provide, new Postgres releases and why you should shard your database. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit: https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/393-job-security/ Want to learn more about Postgr…

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What's new in EXPLAIN 45:13

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Nik and Michael discuss the various changes to EXPLAIN that arrived in Postgres 18. Here are some links to things they mentioned: EXPLAIN (official docs) https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/sql-explain.html Using EXPLAIN (official docs) https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/using-explain.html EXPLAIN glossary (pgMustard site) https://www.pgmu…

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Strictly typed SQL with Contra CTO, Gajus Kuizinas 59:50

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In this episode, Gajus Kuizinas, co-founder and CTO of Contra, joins Aaron to talk about building the engineering world you want to live in, from strict runtime-validated SQL with Slonik to creating high-ownership engineering cultures. They dive into developer experience, runtime assertions, SafeQL, and even “Loom-driven development,” a powerful re…

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C++ is Still Here, Still Powerful with Gabriel Dos Reis 35:50

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In a world of Rust, Go, and Python, why does C++ still matter? Dr. Gabriel Dos Reis joins Scott to explain how C++ continues to shape everything from GPUs and browsers to AI infrastructure. They talk about performance, predictability, and the art of balancing power with safety...and how the language’s constant evolution keeps it relevant four decad…

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MTAR T3D Sessions: Implementing real-world security and compliance 13:00

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James breaks down the difference between checking the box for compliance and implementing meaningful, real-world security. From encryption-at-rest misunderstandings to SQL injection vulnerabilities that still plague organizations today, he explains why companies often miss the point — and how to approach security controls in a way that actually pro…

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60 Billion Predictions Daily: Inside Credit Karma’s Agentic Data Layer with Maddie Daianu 19:55

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What does MLOps look like when you are deploying 60 billion machine learning predictions a day? Maddie Daianu, Head of Data and AI at Intuit Credit Karma, joins the Data Bros to pull back the curtain on one of the most high-volume data environments in FinTech. With a 100-person team serving 140 million members, standard data practices break down. M…

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100 Times Faster By Skipping! | Scaling Postgres 392 15:52

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In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss performance improvements related to skip scans, faster backup & restore, benefits of minimal indexes and more details about my upcoming course discount. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit: https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/392-100-times-faster-by-skipping/ Want…

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Tens of TB per hour 38:47

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Nik talks Michael through a recent benchmark he worked with Maxim Boguk on, to see how quickly they could provision a replica. Here are some links to things they mentioned: Ultra-fast replica creation with pgBackRest (blog post by Maxim Boguk and Nik) https://postgres.ai/blog/20251105-postgres-marathon-2-012-ultra-fast-replica-creation-pgbackrest C…

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Building serverless vector search with Turbopuffer CEO, Simon Eskildsen 1:06:48

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In this episode, Aaron Francis talks with Simon Eskildsen, co-founder and CEO of TurboPuffer, about building a high-performance search engine and database that runs entirely on object storage. They dive deep on Simon's time as an engineer at Shopify, database design trade-offs, and how TurboPuffer powers modern AI workloads like Cursor and Notion. …

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Why Postgres? and why now? with Claire Giordano 36:11

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Postgres has quietly become the world’s favorite database...running startups, governments, and global clouds alike. Scott talks with Claire Giordano, long-time Postgres advocate and technologist, about the database’s unlikely rise from academic roots to modern dominance. They explore its design philosophy, the open-source community that fuels it, a…

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MTAR T3D Sessions: Stepping away from AWS, Google and databases to explore machine learning 13:33

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Welcome to Episode 13 of More Than a Refresh Presents: T3D Sessions! In this session, Command Prompt Founder Joshua “JD” Drake sits down with Kevin Jernigan, Chief Product Officer at J4 Capital LLC, whose career spans decades across the world’s biggest database and cloud companies.Kevin walks us through his journey from Oracle, AWS (Aurora PostgreS…

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Table Lock Explosion! | Scaling Postgres 391 19:15

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In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss the issues of partition locking during planning, the problem of too much memory, the importance of a txvector column and an upcoming sale on my course. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit: https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/391-table-lock-explosion/ Want to learn…

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Building a dev experience for Postgres in VS Code with Rob Emanuele 1:18:40

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What do guitar busking, geospatial queries, and agentic coding have to do with Postgres? In Episode 33 of Talking Postgres, principal engineer Rob Emanuele at Microsoft shares his winding path from Venice Beach to building a new VS Code extension for PostgreSQL—that works with any Postgres, anywhere. We dig into GitHub Copilot, ask vs. agent mode, …

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Building an S3 Competitor with Tigris CEO Ovais Tariq 1:07:27

1M ago1:07:27

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Aaron talks with Ovais Tariq, co-founder and CEO of Tigris Data and former Uber engineer who helped scale one of the world’s largest distributed systems. They discuss Uber’s hyperscale infrastructure, what it takes to build an S3-compatible object store from scratch, and how distributed storage is evolving for the AI era. Follow Ovais: Twitter: htt…

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The Past Still Boots with the Interim Computing Museum's Stephen Jones 40:46

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Scott talks with Stephen Jones of the new Interim Computing Museum, about the craft of bringing old computers back to life. From wire-wrapped boards to tape drives and terminals, this episode dives into why running the old systems — not just displaying them — matters for understanding how modern computing came to be. Support, Visit, and Donate to t…

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1.2 Million Messages Per Second | Scaling Postgres 390 17:32

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In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss how far Postgres can scale with queue and pub/sub workloads, temporal joins, IPC:SyncRep and nested partitioning. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit: https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/390-1.2-million-messages-per-second/ Want to learn more about Postgres perfor…

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Amazon US-EAST-1 Outage in Details 24:26

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On October 19 2025 AWS experienced an outage that lasted over a day, 10 days later we finally got the root cause analysis and we know exactly what caused the DNS to fail0:00 Summary 5:30 How did Dynamo lost its DNS?13:41 EC2 Errors 16:16 Network Load Balancer ErrorsRCA here https://aws.amazon.com/message/101925/…

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Gapless sequences 39:49

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Nik and Michael discuss the concept of gapless sequences — when you might want one, why sequences in Postgres can have gaps, and an idea or two if you do want them. And one quick clarification: changing the CACHE option in CREATE SEQUENCE can lead to even more gaps, the docs mention it explicitly. Here are some links to things they mentioned: CREAT…

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Cheat Codes for Junior Engineers with Kat Excellence 35:22

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This week Scott talks to Kat who shares her tactical wisdom from her blog Katexcellence.io, where she decodes the early-career engineering experience with clarity and wit. From learning to build without motivation, to balancing depth and velocity, to navigating layoffs and early‑career uncertainty, Kat distills lessons from her own journey through …

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Rewriting SQLite from prison with Preston Thorpe 1:18:28

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In this episode of Database School, Aaron talks with Preston Thorpe, a senior engineer at Turso who is currently incarcerated, about his incredible journey from prison to rewriting SQLite in Rust. They dive deep into concurrent writes, MVCC, and the challenges of building a new database from scratch while discussing redemption, resilience, and raw …

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MTAR T3D Sessions: Experiencing the benefits of Cython to increase Python performance 10:59

2M ago10:59

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Welcome to Episode 14 of More Than a Refresh Presents: T3D SessionsCommand Prompt Founder Joshua "JD" Drake chats with Valerii Herman, Python Developer at Command Prompt, about Cython — a superset of Python that combines Python’s simplicity with C’s performance.Valerii explains how Cython lets developers keep the readability of Python while selecti…

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Heavy Reader or Writer? | Scaling Postgres 389 14:21

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In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss ways to optimize reading or writing, the benefits of a descending index, more information about lightweight locks and a backup public service announcement. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit: https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/389-heavy-reader-or-writer/ Want to…

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A million transactions per second: building TigerBeetle with Joran Greef 1:28:12

2M ago1:28:12

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In this episode, Aaron talks with Joran Greef, CEO and creator of TigerBeetle, the world’s first financial transactions database. Joran takes us on a deep dive of on how TigerBeetle brings double-entry accounting principles directly into the database layer to achieve extreme correctness, performance, and fault tolerance at scale. Follow Joran and T…

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AI-Powered Migration plus Raw Experience with Mike Rousos 36:25

2M ago36:25

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On this episode of Hanselminutes, Scott Hanselman talks with cloud migration and app modernization expert Mike Rousos about the challenges and opportunities of bringing decades-old applications into the modern era. They discuss practical strategies for app modernization, how AI and GitHub Copilot are reshaping developer workflows, and what it takes…

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MTAR T3D Sessions: Beyond CAPTCHA and honeypots, simplified layered defenses against website spam 12:01

2M ago12:01

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Welcome to Episode 11 of More Than a Refresh Presents: T3D SessionsCommand Prompt Founder Joshua "JD" Drake chats with Eugene Dubinin, Senior Developer & Project Lead at Command Prompt, about strategies for fighting web application registration spam — a problem they faced firsthand while maintaining the Postgres Conference website.Eugene explains w…