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Talking Postgres with Claire Giordano | How I went from Oracle to Postgres (with a big NoSQL detour) with Gwen Shapira 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...

How I went from Oracle to Postgres (with a big NoSQL detour) with Gwen Shapira (E38) #TalkingPostgres talkingpostgres.com/episodes/how...

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Smiling headshot of Nile co-founder & Postgres community member Gwen Shapira who was a guest on the Talking Postgres podcast Ep38

Smiling headshot of Nile co-founder & Postgres community member Gwen Shapira who was a guest on the Talking Postgres podcast Ep38

🎙️ New @talkingpostgres.com podcast Ep38 is out!

Gwen Shapira @gwenshap.bsky.social (co‑founder at Nile) joined to talk about her journey with Oracle, NoSQL, & Postgres. Tip: if you're arguing with a customer, you've already lost

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Talking Postgres with Claire Giordano | Building Postgres services on Azure with Charles Feddersen 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 produc...

Building Postgres services on Azure with Charles Feddersen (E37) #TalkingPostgres talkingpostgres.com/episodes/bui...

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Smiling headshot of Charles Feddersen along with the thumbnail for the Talking Postgres podcast and Charles's name in big text

🎙️ New @talkingpostgres.com podcast Ep37 is out!

Charles Feddersen, partner director of product for Postgres on Azure, joined me to talk about building Postgres services on Azure, his views on PM work, & his transition to Postgres 🐘

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I'm so excited to go on Talking Postgres! One of my fav podcasts! I'll chat about my journey to found Nile and discover Postgres.

The podcast has a Discord channel where fans discuss the episode as it is recorded. If you want to join ua live, let me know and I'll send you an invite.

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Talking Postgres with Claire Giordano | Why it's fun to hack on Postgres performance with Tomas Vondra 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 perform...

Why it's fun to hack on Postgres performance with Tomas Vondra (E36) #TalkingPostgres talkingpostgres.com/episodes/why...

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Bio pic for Tomas Vondra, Postgres committer and major contributor, along with his name in big letters and the podcast thumbnail for Talking Postgres

🎙️ New @talkingpostgres.com podcast Ep36 is out!

Tomas Vondra, Postgres committer & long-time performance contributor, missed out on the Czechia/Canada hockey game 🏒 to talk about why it's fun to hack on Postgres performance 🐘

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Bio pics of Talking Postgres podcast guest Tomas Vondra and host Claire Giordano, along with the date and title of the live recording for Ep36, titled "Why it's fun to hack on Postgres performance"

Bio pics of Talking Postgres podcast guest Tomas Vondra and host Claire Giordano, along with the date and title of the live recording for Ep36, titled "Why it's fun to hack on Postgres performance"

Hey Postgres friends: On Wed 18 Feb at 10am PT, I'll host a LIVE recording of Ep36 of the @talkingpostgres.com podcast w/guest Tomas Vondra, a PostgreSQL hacker at Microsoft

Topic: Why it's fun to hack on Postgres performance

Join to be part of the live text chat on Discord aka.ms/TalkingPostg...

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Talking Postgres with Claire Giordano | How I got started with DBtune (& why we chose Postgres) with Luigi Nardi Are self-driving databases the Waymos of the future? In Episode 35 of Talking Postgres, Luigi Nardi—founder and CEO of DBtune and Stanford researcher—joins Claire Giordano to explore his journey fr...

How I got started with DBtune (& why we chose Postgres) with Luigi Nardi (E35) #TalkingPostgres talkingpostgres.com/episodes/how...

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Smiling bio pic of Luigi Nardi of DBtune, along with the thumbnail and elephant mascot for Talking Postgres podcast

🎙️ New @talkingpostgres.com podcast Ep35 is out!

Luigi Nardi, the founder of an automated database tuning startup, joined to dig into how he got started with DBtune & why they chose Postgres

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Talking Postgres with Claire Giordano | What Postgres developers can expect from PGConf.dev with Melanie Plageman 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 fr...

What Postgres developers can expect from PGConf.dev with Melanie Plageman (E34) #TalkingPostgres talkingpostgres.com/episodes/wha...

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Smiling photo of Talking Postgres podcast guest from Ep34, Melanie Plageman from Microsoft who is a Postgres committer and major contributor

🎙️ New @talkingpostgres.com podcast Ep34 is out!

Postgres committer & major contributor Melanie Plageman of Microsoft joined to dig into what developers & the community will get out of @pgconf.dev (CFP will close on Jan 16)

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📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHs1...

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Bio pics of podcast guest Karen Jex and Talking Postgres host Claire Giordano along with date and time of the LIVE recording of Ep34 of this podcast, happening on Discord: Wed Dec 10th at 10:00am PST. Ep34 title also is listed: "How I got started as a DBA (& in Postgres)"

Bio pics of podcast guest Karen Jex and Talking Postgres host Claire Giordano along with date and time of the LIVE recording of Ep34 of this podcast, happening on Discord: Wed Dec 10th at 10:00am PST. Ep34 title also is listed: "How I got started as a DBA (& in Postgres)"

Happening Wed Dec 10 at 10:00a PST, a LIVE recording of the #TalkingPostgres #podcast on Discord

Guest: Karen Jex @karenhjex.bsky.social
Topic: How I got started as a DBA (& in Postgres)

Join us to be part of the parallel text chat!

Cal invite w/ details on how to join: aka.ms/TalkingPostg...

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Talking about experimentation on the Talking Postgres podcast.
Talking about experimentation on the Talking Postgres podcast. YouTube video by Rob Emanuele

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Graphic announcing POSETTE: An Event for Postgres 2026. Text reads ‘CFP is Open. Submit by Sun Feb 01, 2026 | 11:59pm PST.’ Includes Microsoft logo and hashtag #PosetteConf. Design features a stylized blue and purple elephant head illustration on the right.

Graphic announcing POSETTE: An Event for Postgres 2026. Text reads ‘CFP is Open. Submit by Sun Feb 01, 2026 | 11:59pm PST.’ Includes Microsoft logo and hashtag #PosetteConf. Design features a stylized blue and purple elephant head illustration on the right.

📣 Have a PostgreSQL insight to share? The call for proposals (CFP) for POSETTE: An Event for POSETTE 2026 is OPEN! 🎉

* Free & virtual
* June 16–18, 2026
* Organized by the #PostgreSQL team at Microsoft

Submit by Feb 1, 2026 → posetteconf.com/2026/cfp/

#PosetteConf #Postgres #CFP

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Talking Postgres with Claire Giordano | Building a dev experience for Postgres in VS Code with Rob Emanuele 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...

Building a dev experience for Postgres in VS Code with Rob Emanuele (E33) #TalkingPostgres talkingpostgres.com/episodes/bui...

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Postgres + VS Code fans - this podcast episode is for you!

Learn all about building a dev experience for Postgres in VS Code
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Bio pic for Rob Emanuele the Ep33 podcast guest on Talking Postgres (where he talks about building a dev experience for Postgres in VS Code)

🎙️ New @talkingpostgres.com podcast Ep33 is out!

Microsoft engineer Rob Emanuele joined to discuss building a dev experience for Postgres in VS Code @vscode.dev + geospatial queries, guitar busking, creativity & agentic coding

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How I Learned to Embrace my Chaotic Brain More than a decade ago, I applied for a job in Brussels and part of the process was to pass a...

For @talkingpostgres.com @clairegiordano.bsky.social talked to Global Solutions Architect @tchorix.bsky.social about his marvelous brain, and ability to make connections that help people understand complex systems: talkingpostgres.com/episodes/the...

Boriss wrote a blog too: dev.to/bmejias/how-...

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Talking Postgres with Claire Giordano | The Fundamental Interconnectedness of All Things with Boriss Mejías What do chess clocks, jazz, and Postgres replication have in common? In Episode 32 of Talking Postgres, solution architect Boriss Mejías shares how the idea of “interconnectedness”—inspired by Doug...

The Fundamental Interconnectedness of All Things with Boriss Mejías (E32) #TalkingPostgres talkingpostgres.com/episodes/the...

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Talking Postgres with Claire Giordano | What went wrong (& what went right) with AIO with Andres Freund 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, An...

What went wrong (& what went right) with AIO with Andres Freund (E31) #TalkingPostgres talkingpostgres.com/episodes/wha...

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Pic of Postgres solution architect Boriss Mejías on stage at PGDay Lowlands 2024, along with his name in bigger letters and the Talking Postgres podcast thumbnail

Pic of Postgres solution architect Boriss Mejías on stage at PGDay Lowlands 2024, along with his name in bigger letters and the Talking Postgres podcast thumbnail

🎙️ New @talkingpostgres.com podcast Ep32 just published

Boriss Mejías @tchorix.bsky.social explored the Fundamental Interconnectedness of All Things as a methodology for working with Postgres—& we connected lots of dots

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Headshot pics of podcast guest Boriss Mejías & host Claire Giordano along with the title of Talking Postgres Ep32: "The Fundamental Interconnectedness of All Things", which will be recorded live on Wed Oct 8th at 10:00am PDT

Headshot pics of podcast guest Boriss Mejías & host Claire Giordano along with the title of Talking Postgres Ep32: "The Fundamental Interconnectedness of All Things", which will be recorded live on Wed Oct 8th at 10:00am PDT

Happening Wed Oct 8, a LIVE recording of the @talkingpostgres.com podcast w/guest @tchorix.bsky.social, about Postgres & 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 aka.ms/talkingpostg...

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Talking Postgres with Claire Giordano | What went wrong (& what went right) with AIO with Andres Freund 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, An...

What went wrong (& what went right) with AIO with Andres Freund (E30) #TalkingPostgres talkingpostgres.com/episodes/wha...

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Photo of Postgres committer Andres Freund wearing glasses & a smile, along with the thumbnail for the Talking Postgres podcast

Photo of Postgres committer Andres Freund wearing glasses & a smile, along with the thumbnail for the Talking Postgres podcast

🎙️ New @talkingpostgres.com podcast Ep31 just published!

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

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"I've got several hundred open source projects that I'm maintaining right now. And the reason I'm doing that is purely to make sure I never have to solve the same problem twice." -Simon Willison #TalkingPostgres E30

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- October 8, 2025 @ 10:00am PT: Talking Postgres: The Fundamental Interconnectedness of All Things with Boriss Mejías (E32)
- November 5, 2025 @ 10:00am PT: Talking Postgres: Building a dev experience for Postgres in VS Code with Rob Emanuele (E33)
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GitHub - microsoft/open-source-discord: Welcome to the Microsoft Open Source Discord Welcome to the Microsoft Open Source Discord. Contribute to microsoft/open-source-discord development by creating an account on GitHub.

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- September 17, 2025 @ 10:00am PT: Talking Postgres: What went wrong (and what went right) with AIO with Andres Freund (E31)
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Talking Postgres with Claire Giordano | AI for data engineers with Simon Willison 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 expl...

AI for data engineers with Simon Willison (E30) #TalkingPostgres talkingpostgres.com/episodes/ai-...

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