Best PostgreSQL Podcasts (2025)

Nik and Michael discuss user management in Postgres — how roles work, making administration easier, setting passwords, and avoiding them being logged. Here are some links to things they mentioned: Roles https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/user-manag.html Privileges https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/ddl-priv.html ALTER DEFAULT PRIVILEGES h…

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Orkes and Agentic Workflow Orchestration with Viren Baraiya 46:44

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Modern software systems are composed of many independent microservices spanning frontends, backends, APIs, and AI models, and coordinating and scaling them reliably is a constant challenge. A workflow orchestration platform addresses this by providing a structured framework to define, execute, and monitor complex workflows with resilience and clari…

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Turbopuffer with Simon Hørup Eskildsen 50:36

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Vector search has become a foundational technology for AI applications, enabling everything from semantic code search to contextual retrieval for large language models. However, a major challenge with vector databases has been the cost as data storage scales. Turbopuffer is a vector database that focuses on speed, cost and scalability. It was creat…

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Postgres 18 Released! | Scaling Postgres 385 17:07

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In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss the release of Postgres 18 and cover different features such as asynchronous I/O, enhanced return from statements, parallel apply, adding not null as not valid and more! To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit: https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/385-postgres-18-relea…

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Postgres 18 55:43

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Nik and Michael discuss the newly released Postgres 18 — the bigger things it includes, some of their personal highlights, and some thoughts towards the future. Here are some links to things they mentioned: Postgres 18 announcement https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/postgresql-18-released-3142 Postgres 18 release notes https://www.postgresql.org…

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Building an Indie Hit in Godot with Jay Baylis and Tom Coxon 42:22

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Cassette Beasts is a turn-based monster-battling RPG that lets players record creatures onto cassette tapes and transform into them during battle. The game was an indie hit, and is also one of the most successful games built with the open source Godot Engine. Jay Baylis and Tom Coxon are the creators of Cassette Beasts at Bytten Studio. They join t…

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Rethinking GraphQL Frontends with Robert Balicki 38:00

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A challenge in modern frontend application design is efficiently fetching and managing GraphQL data while keeping UI components responsive and maintainable. Developers often face issues like over-fetching, under-fetching, and handling complex query dependencies, which can lead to performance bottlenecks and increased development effort. Relay is a …

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Preparing For Postgres 18 | Scaling Postgres 384 17:25

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In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss getting excited about Postgres 18, oauth authentication, reconsidering your interface and a zero downtime upgrade. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit: https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/384-preparing-for-postgres-18/ Want to learn more about Postgres performance…

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What went wrong (& what went right) with AIO with Andres Freund 1:12:46

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Six years, a prototype, and a brief multi-layered descent into “wronger and wronger” design—what does it take to land a major architectural change in Postgres? In Episode 31 of Talking Postgres, Andres Freund—major contributor, Postgres committer, and lead of the Asynchronous I/O project—shares the wins, the missteps, and why he thinks AIO definite…

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Gadget's use of Postgres 52:59

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Nik and Michael are joined by Harry Brundage from Gadget to talk about their recent zero-downtime major version upgrade, how they use Postgres more generally, their dream database, and some challenges of providing Postgres as an abstracted service at scale. Here are some links to things they mentioned: Harry Brundage https://postgres.fm/people/harr…

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pnpm with Zoltan Kochan 36:23

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Traditional package management systems for JavaScript have faced several inefficiencies related to dependency storage, resolution, and project performance. pnpm is a fast, disk-efficient package manager for JavaScript and TypeScript projects, serving as an alternative to npm and Yarn. Due to its efficiency and reliability, pnpm is increasingly popu…

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SurrealDB 3.0 and Building Event-Driven AI Applications with Tobie Morgan Hitchcock 55:18

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Modern application development often involves juggling multiple types of databases to handle diverse data models. The lack of unification can lead to complex architectures with attendant security concerns and fragmented development workflows. SurrealDB is an open-source, multi-model database developed in Rust and integrates functionalities of many …

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OrioleDB More Free? | Scaling Postgres 383 13:20

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In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss free availability of an OrioleDB patent, pgEdge going open source, pg_duckdb hitting 1.0 and methods resolve to slow order by limit queries. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit: https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/383-orioledb-more-free/ Want to learn more about P…

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turbopuffer 49:36

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Nik and Michael are joined by Simon Eskildsen from turbopuffer — among other things, they discuss ANN index types, tradeoffs that can make sense for search workloads, and when it can make sense to move search out of Postgres. Here are some links to things they mentioned: Simon Eskildsen https://postgres.fm/people/simon-eskildsen turbopuffer https:/…

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Angular with Jessica Janiuk 51:03

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Modern web development faces several challenges, particularly when building scalable, maintainable, and high-performance applications. As applications grow, managing complex user interfaces, and ensuring efficient data handling and modular code structures, becomes increasingly difficult. Angular is a TypeScript-based web framework developed by Goog…

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SED News: Perplexity’s Chrome Play, Meta’s AI Freeze, and Intel Becomes Too Big to Fail 46:38

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SED News is a monthly podcast from Software Engineering Daily where hosts Gregor Vand and Sean Falconer unpack the biggest stories shaping software engineering, Silicon Valley, and the broader tech industry. In this episode, they discuss Perplexity’s headline-grabbing offer to buy Google Chrome, the U.S. government’s large stake in Intel, Meta’s ab…

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DB LLM Agents? | Scaling Postgres 382 19:03

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In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss using a LLM as an agent, the importance of partitioned table statistics, PG 18 RC1, primary keys in sharded databases and a blue/green rollback. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit: https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/382-db-llm-agents/ Want to learn more about Po…

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When not to use Postgres 46:17

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Nik and Michael discuss when not to use Postgres — specifically use cases where it still makes sense to store data in another system. Here are some links to things they mentioned: Just use Postgres (blog post by Ethan McCue) https://mccue.dev/pages/8-16-24-just-use-postgres Just Use Postgres for Everything (blog post by Stephan Schmidt) https://www…

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Context-Aware SQL and Metadata with Shinji Kim 41:38

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A common challenge in data-rich organizations is that critical context about the data is often hard to capture and even harder to keep up to date. As more people across the organization use data and data models get more complex, simply finding the right dataset can be slow and create bottlenecks. Select Star is a data discovery and metadata platfor…

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Modern Data Visualization with Robert Kosara 48:50

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Data visualization is increasingly important as organizations prioritize data-driven decision-making. Tools that transform complex datasets into intuitive, interpretable visualizations are arguably just as critical as the data itself. Robert Kosara is a Data Visualization Developer at Observable which is a platform for creating interactive data vis…

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DocumentDB Movement | Scaling Postgres 381 9:44

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In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss DocumentDB moving to the Linux Foundation, multi-column indexes, SCRAM pass-through and RDS Proxy oddities. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit: https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/381-documentdb-movement/ Want to learn more about Postgres performance? Join my FRE…

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Disks 46:13

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Nik and Michael discuss disks in relation to Postgres — why they matter, how saturation can happen, some modern nuances, and how to prepare to avoid issues. Here are some links to things they mentioned: Nik’s tweet demonstrating a NOTIFY hot spot https://x.com/samokhvalov/status/1959468091035009245 Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY does not scale (blog post b…

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A Conversation with Amazon CTO Werner Vogels 48:15

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Werner Vogels is the Chief Technology Officer at Amazon, where he has played a pivotal role in shaping the company’s technology vision for over two decades. Before joining Amazon in 2004, Werner was a research scientist at Cornell University where he focused on distributed systems and scalability, both of which are concepts that would later influen…

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Redis and AI Agent Memory with Andrew Brookins 48:36

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A key challenge with designing AI agents is that large language models are stateless and have limited context windows. This requires careful engineering to maintain continuity and reliability across sequential LLM interactions. To perform well, agents need fast systems for storing and retrieving short-term conversations, summaries, and long-term fa…

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Storage Engine Progress? | Scaling Postgres 380 14:53

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In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss enhancements to Oriole DB, new Postgres releases, a logging guide and application framework frustrations. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit: https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/380-storage-engine-progress/ Want to learn more about Postgres performance? Join my F…

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Multi-column indexes 41:21

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Nik and Michael discuss multi-column indexes in Postgres — what they are, how to think about them, and some guidance around using them effectively. Here are some links to things they mentioned: Multicolumn Indexes (docs) https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/indexes-multicolumn.html Our episode on Index-only scans https://postgres.fm/episodes/ind…

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Complex Workload Deployment with Will Stewart 37:34

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Deploying and managing cloud workloads is a complex task that requires developers to handle infrastructure, scaling, CI/CD pipelines, and database hosting. Configuring and maintaining Kubernetes, ensuring smooth deployments, and integrating various services efficiently is a common challenge. Will Stewart is the co-founder and CEO of Northflank, whi…

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Empowering Cross-Functional Product Teams with Tobias Dunn-Krahn and Doug Peete 46:28

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Modern software teams typically rely on a patchwork of tools to manage planning, development, feature rollout, and post-release analysis. This fragmentation is a known challenge that can create friction and slow down software development iteration. It’s especially problematic for cross-functional teams, where differences in roles, expertise, and wo…

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Unconventional Advice? | Scaling Postgres 379 19:03

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In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss when you should reindex, how to handle case insensitive data, how to index jsonb and the top recommendations when doing performance optimizations. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit: https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/379-unconventional-advice/ Want to learn mor…

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Talking Postgres with Claire Giordano – Trailer 2:53

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Why do Postgres developers, contributors, and users do what they do? In each episode of Talking Postgres, Claire Giordano talks to people from across the Postgres ecosystem—how they got started, what they’ve learned, and what they’re still figuring out. This 3-minute trailer offers a fast-paced glimpse into the fun, surprising, and deeply human sto…

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Self-driving Postgres 59:13

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Nikolay and Michael discuss self-driving Postgres — what it could mean, using self-driving cars as a reference, and ideas for things to build and optimize for in this area. Here are some links to things they mentioned: Nikolay’s blog post on Self-driving Postgres https://postgres.ai/blog/20250725-self-driving-postgres SAE J3016 levels of driving au…

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Carbon and Modernizing C++ with Chandler Carruth 1:02:13

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Carbon is a programming language developed by Google as a successor to C++, and it aims to provide modern safety features while maintaining high performance. It’s designed to offer seamless interoperability with C++ while addressing shortcomings of C++ such as slow compilation times and lack of memory safety. Carbon also introduces features like a …

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Podman with Brent Baude 43:24

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Podman is an open-source container management tool that allows developers to build, run, and manage containers. Unlike Docker, it supports rootless containers for improved security and is fully compatible with standards from the Open Container Initiative, or OCI. Brent Baude is a Senior Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat where he works on Podma…

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Native Column Store? | Scaling Postgres 378 19:29

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In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss Postgres getting a native column store via an index, faster btree_gift indexes, scaling listen/notify, and a logical replication slot deep dive. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit: https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/378-native-column-store/ Want to learn more ab…

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AI for data engineers with Simon Willison 1:15:58

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It’s always a good day if you see a pelican. In Episode 30 of Talking Postgres with Claire Giordano, open source developer Simon Willison—creator of Datasette and co-creator of Django—joins to explore how AI is useful for data engineers today. We move past the hype and boosterism to dig into example after example: structured data extraction, alt te…

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caSe-inSENsiTive 26:22

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Nikolay and Michael discuss case-insensitive data — when we want to treat columns as case-insensitive, and the pros and cons of using citext, functions like lower(), or a custom collation. Here are some links to things they mentioned: citext https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/citext.html Our episode on over-indexing https://postgres.fm/episode…

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SED News: Meta’s AI Gambit, Windsurf Shake‑Up, and the UK VPN Surge 47:25

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SED News is a monthly podcast from Software Engineering Daily where hosts Gregor Vand and Sean Falconer unpack the biggest stories shaping software engineering, Silicon Valley, and the broader tech industry. In this episode, they explore Meta’s bold push into AI with the launch of Meta Superintelligence Labs, the dramatic twists in the Windsurf acq…

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Electron and Desktop App Engineering with Shelley Vohr 50:59

2M ago50:59

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Electron is a framework for building cross-platform desktop applications using web technologies like JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. It allows developers to package web apps with a native-like experience by bundling them with a Chromium browser and Node.js runtime. Electron is widely used for apps like VS Code, Discord, and Slack because it enables a si…

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Sharding At Network Speeds | Scaling Postgres 377 15:14

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In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss how to shard your DB at network speeds, how to make your DB 42,000 slower, new monitoring and just enough text searching performance. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit: https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/377-sharding-at-network-speeds/ Want to learn more about …

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NeonDB: A Serverless PostgreSQL Analysis 28:10

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NeonDB is a pioneering serverless PostgreSQL database designed for cloud-native environments, fundamentally characterized by its separation of compute and storage layers. Founded in 2021, it has rapidly grown to manage over 700,000 databases within three years, offering features like instant database branching (allowing writable copies in seconds),…

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Modal and Scaling AI Inference with Erik Bernhardsson 39:55

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Modal is a serverless compute platform that’s specifically focused on AI workloads. The company’s goal is to enable AI teams to quickly spin up GPU-enabled containers, and rapidly iterate and autoscale. It was founded by Erik Bernhardsson who was previously at Spotify for 7 years where he built the music recommendation system and the popular Luigi …

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RxJS with Ben Lesh 50:29

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RxJS is an open-source library for composing asynchronous and event-based programs. It provides powerful operators for transforming, filtering, combining, and managing streams of data, from user input and web requests to real-time updates. Ben Lesh is the creator of RxJS. He joins Josh Goldberg to talk about his path into engineering and the RxJS l…

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100K Events Per Second Queue | Scaling Postgres 376 19:45

2M ago19:45

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In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss a 100K events per second queue built on Postgres, how an MCP can leak your database, MultiXact ID and space overrun and struggles starting Postgres. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit: https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/376-100k-events-per-second-queue/ Want to …

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Monitoring from Postgres AI 44:40

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Nikolay talks to Michael about Postgres AI's new monitoring tool — what it is, how its different to other tools, and some of the thinking behind it. Here are some links to things they mentioned: postgres_ai monitoring https://gitlab.com/postgres-ai/postgres_ai DB Lab 4.0 announcement https://github.com/postgres-ai/database-lab-engine/releases/tag/v…

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Small AI Models with Yoeven Khemlani 40:39

2M ago40:39

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JigsawStack is a startup that develops a suite of custom small models for tasks such as scraping, forecasting, vOCR, and translation. The platform is designed to support collaborative knowledge work, especially in research-heavy or strategy-driven environments. Yoeven Khemlani is the Founder of JigsawStack and he joins the podcast with Gregor Vand …

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Streamlining Cloud Infrastructure Deployments with Jake Cooper 43:07

2M ago43:07

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Railway is a software company that provides a popular platform for deploying and managing applications in the cloud. It automates tasks such as infrastructure provisioning, scaling, and deployment and is particularly known for having a developer-friendly interface. Jake Cooper is the Founder and CEO at Railway. He joins the show to talk about the c…

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All The Benchmarks | Scaling Postgres 375 16:19

2M ago16:19

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In this episode of Scaling Postgres, we discuss new benchmarks as a result of the Planetscale Postgres announcement, various platform improvements and a deep dive into Multigres. To get the show notes as well as get notified of new episodes, visit: https://www.scalingpostgres.com/episodes/375-all-the-benchmarks/ Want to learn more about Postgres pe…

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MultiXact member space exhaustion 55:43

3M ago55:43

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Nikolay and Michael are joined by Andrew Johnson and Nate Brennand from Metronome to discuss MultiXact member space exhaustion — what it is, how they managed to hit it, and some tips to prevent running into it at scale. Here are some links to things they mentioned: Nate Brennand https://postgres.fm/people/nate-brennand Andrew Johnson https://postgr…

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Building Open Infrastructure for AI with Illia Polosukhin 49:12

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Illia Polosukhin is a veteran AI researcher and one of the original authors of the landmark Transformer paper, Attention is All You Need, which he co-authored during his time at Google Research. He has a deep background in machine learning and natural language processing, and has spent over a decade working at the intersection of AI and decentraliz…