Talking Postgres

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...

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 🐘

🎧 talkingpostgres.com/episodes/why...
📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=7a7M...

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

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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...

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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📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Rtk...

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...

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)

🎧 talkingpostgres.com/episodes/wha...
📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHs1...

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

Talking about experimentation on the Talking Postgres podcast by Rob Emanuele youtube.com/shorts/1STFr...

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

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...

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

Learn all about building a dev experience for Postgres in VS Code
🔗 talkingpostgres.com/episodes/bui...

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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📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UuF...

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-...

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...

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

🎧 talkingpostgres.com/episodes/the...
📺 youtu.be/S63usJYcw-k?...

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...

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...

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

🎧 talkingpostgres.com/episodes/wha...
📺 youtu.be/bVei7-AyMJ8?...

"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

- 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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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-...

The square podcast thumbnail for Talking Postgres with Claire Giordano plus the words "Podcast TRAILER" underneath

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 🔥

🎧 talkingpostgres.com/episodes/tal...
📺 youtu.be/ZWMb9qmTpSY?...

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🎙️ New @talkingpostgres.com #podcast Ep30 just published!

Guest @simonwillison.net talked about AI for data engineers. We skipped hype & boosterism to chat about Postgres permissions, alt text, 150-line SQL queries, & pelicans on 🚲

🎧 talkingpostgres.com/episodes/ai-...
📺 youtu.be/8SAqeJHsmRM?...

Bio pics for Talking Postgres podcast guest Simon Willison and host Claire Giordano, along with the date for the live recording on Discord: Wed Aug 6th at 10:00am PDT. Also, the Ep30 title: "AI for data engineers"

I'm so looking forward to having the amazing @simonwillison.net on the @talkingpostgres.com #podcast again, to discuss AI for data engineers (& #PostgreSQL people)

When? The LIVE recording is on Wed Aug 6th at 10am PDT

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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