For the September 2023 edition of PGSQL Phriday I asked folks to write about what they were most excited about with PostgreSQL 16, possibly due to release within the next 10 days or so. Over the last few years as I’ve gotten more involved with the PostgreSQL community, the (essentially but not guaranteed) yearly release … Read more
We’ve done it! 🎉🎉🎉 One full year of monthly blogs hosted by the community and made possible through community submissions! It’s an exciting time to be celebrating this milestone with the PostgreSQL community, because in reality, the best of PostgreSQL in 2023 is still to come. What an exciting time to be a part of … Read more
In the world of technology, nothing ever seems to stay the same. I know that’s a somewhat trite comment at this point but “C’est la vie.” The database space is no different. Nearly every week some new development is announced. One day it’s a startup with a new approach to solving a tricky data-driven problem, … Read more
Not quite two years ago I had the privilege to give one of the sponsor keynotes at PGConf.NYC 2021. At the time I was a Timescale employee. But rather than focus solely on how Timescale could solve the problems of people in the room, the leadership gave me freedom to share a vision for increasing … Read more
For this month’s PGSQL Phriday #011, Tomasz asked us to think about PostgreSQL partitioning vs. sharding. This is a topic near and dear to me and I’m excited to think about it some this month. For 20+ years of database and application development, time-series data has always been at the heart of the products I … Read more