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...

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...

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...

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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...

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...

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)

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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...

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...

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...

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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Andres Freund will join us for Talking Postgres E31 to discuss "What went wrong (and what went right) with AIO" (Asynchronous I/O). Join live on September 17, 2025 @ 10:00am PT in #talkingpostgres on the Microsoft Open Source Discord.

"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

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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Hello! For those just discovering the @talkingpostgres.com podcast—and those already on this 30-episodes & counting #TalkingPostgres journey with me—we just dropped a new 3-minute trailer (02:52 to be precise) & it is FUN 🔥

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"...even at Microsoft in my first year I worked as a data scientist and in my second year, I made the switch to pure software engineering, to Postgres actually." -Arda Aytekin #TalkingPostgres E13

"I think these are my best days. [...] That's what I prefer to do. Spend a lot of time on tough problems and then find beautiful solutions." -Derk van Veen #TalkingPostgres E12

Talking Postgres with Claire Giordano | How I got started leading database teams with Shireesh Thota From dreaming of driving a bus to leading database engineering at Microsoft. In Episode 29 of Talking Postgres with Claire Giordano, Shireesh Thota traces his path to becoming CVP of Azure database...

How I got started leading database teams with Shireesh Thota (E29) #TalkingPostgres talkingpostgres.com/episodes/how...

Bits of wisdom from a year of Talking Postgres | Microsoft Community Hub Highlights from the past 13 episodes of the monthly Talking Postgres podcast, featuring long-form conversations with PostgreSQL experts. Check it out and let...

New blog post 📒 Bits of engineering wisdom from a year of the #TalkingPostgres #podcast 🎙️ ft. highlights from the past year, from past 13 episodes with #PostgreSQL guests like Tom Lane, Melanie Plageman, Bruce Momjian, Dawn Wages, Affan Dar, & more!
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The shift from developer to manager definitely changes things

From Ep29 of the #TalkingPostgres #podcast:

"I said yes, without fully reading the spec... There's a big contrast between the life as a developer and life as a manager." —Shireesh Thota

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Talking Postgres with Claire Giordano | How I got started leading database teams with Shireesh Thota From dreaming of driving a bus to leading database engineering at Microsoft. In Episode 29 of Talking Postgres with Claire Giordano, Shireesh Thota traces his path to becoming CVP of Azure database...

🎙️ New #TalkingPostgres #podcast Ep29 just published!

Shireesh Thota once dreamed of driving a bus. Instead, he fell for math, BASIC, & engineering—& now leads all database work at Microsoft.

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Bio pics for Talking Postgres podcast guest Shireesh Thota (and host Claire Giordano) along with podcast elephant mascot and the date and episode 29 title: How I got started leading database teams

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.

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Talking Postgres with Claire Giordano | 12 years of Postgres Weekly with Peter Cooper What drives someone to publish 600+ issues of a Postgres newsletter for over a decade? In Episode 28 of Talking Postgres with Claire Giordano, Peter Cooper—creator of Postgres Weekly—shares how his...

12 years of Postgres Weekly with Peter Cooper (E28) #TalkingPostgres talkingpostgres.com/episodes/12-...

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🎙️ New #TalkingPostgres #podcast episode!

Peter Cooper joined to talk about 12 years of Postgres Weekly—with QBASIC Usenet fanzines, the BBC big tent, lots of #PostgreSQL, weekly newsletters for 460K devs, & 1 very cheesy story 🧀

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Bio pics of podcast guest Peter Cooper and Talking Postgres podcast host Claire Giordano. Also displayed is the elephant mascot for the podcast, plus the date and time of the LIVE recording for Ep28 on Wed June 18th at 12noon PDT. The episode title is: "12 years of Postgres Weekly"

Happening Wed 18 Jun at 12noon PDT (new time this time) is a LIVE recording of Ep28 of the #TalkingPostgres #podcast with guest Peter Cooper to talk about "12 years of Postgres Weekly"

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"I don't like benchmarking, but it's also often one of the highest impact things you can do ... I want to say if you managed to answer the question that you're trying to answer, though, very often the question only starts appearing once you run a bunch of benchmarks" -Marco Slot #TalkingPostgres E11

"Almost everyone that's run benchmarks for a significant amount of time, they built their own sort of automation to run the specific benchmarks they needed to run, & then probably they shared it with people & then no one used it or like a few people used it." -Jelte Fennema-Nio #TalkingPostgres E11

"So one of the problems that we had doing that work was for really high scale sites. Either they had a monitoring system that really didn't cover the things that we needed in Postgres or they had a system like it just couldn't scale high enough." -Rob Treat #TalkingPostgres E10

"...pganalyze when it started out was too small to sustain itself as a company. And so I was essentially running it as a side project. For example, when I was at Citus Data luckily the founders of Citus Data were, very generous in allowing that." -Lukas Fittl #TalkingPostgres E10

"...back in 2006, we started a company. We were using Postgres as our main kind of data store. And we got into challenges into scaling the Postgres database back then. That's many Postgres releases ago. And so of course, replication was, still in its infancy..." -Lukas Fittl #TalkingPostgres E10