How to get Postgres ready for the next 100 million users | Path To Citus Con | Episode 02

In this episode of Path To Citus Con*, Abdullah Ustuner, Burak Yucesoy, Melanie Plageman, and Samay Sharma look to the future and what it will hold for the next 100 million users of Postgres. They look at diversifying and evolving the kinds of users for Postgres and some of the challenges faced by the whole ecosystem of open source databases. Hosted by Claire Giordano and Pino de Candia from the Postgres team at Microsoft, listen to the deep dive on what it means to scale the code and the community far beyond the Postgres world of today.
* Path To Citus Con has been renamed to Talking Postgres. All of the past podcast episodes from Path To Citus Con-now called Talking Postgres with Claire Giordano-can be found here: talkingpostgres.com
Abdullah Ustuner is an engineering manager for the Citus open-source team at Microsoft. Abdullah started his career in the OS kernel space and worked his way up the stack from device drivers and static analysis and machine translation. He has a deep passion for engineering fundamentals and building platforms.
Burak Yucesoy is a principal software engineer leading Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL service at Azure. He started his PostgreSQL journey by joining Citus Data and contributing to Citus and HLL extensions. He then continued working as a managed service provider for PostgreSQL at both Microsoft and Citus Data.
Melanie Plageman Melanie is a Postgres hacker working at Microsoft. She has worked on the Postgres executor, planner, storage, MVCC, and statistics subsystems. Most recently she has been hacking on the proposed asynchronous and direct IO patch set. She is passionate about writing maintainable code and building developer tools.
Samay Sharma is an engineering manager leading the Postgres open source team at Microsoft. He has worked with PostgreSQL for over a decade. He loves making it easier for application developers to understand and optimally use Postgres and to make it easier for developers to contribute to it.
Co-hosted by Claire Giordano and Pino de Candia:
Claire Giordano is head of the Citus Open Source and Postgres community initiatives at Microsoft. Prior to the Microsoft acquisition of Citus Data, Claire was VP of Marketing at Citus Data. Claire has served in leadership roles in engineering, product management, and product marketing at Sun Microsystems, Amazon/A9, and Citus Data. At Sun, Claire managed the engineering team that created Solaris Zones, and led the effort to open source Solaris.
Pino de Candia is software dev manager at Microsoft since 2020 and is currently working on the Citus open source project. Pino previously worked on the managed PostgreSQL database service in Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL, which includes Citus on Azure support for distributed PostgreSQL. Pino has lived in New Orleans since 2017.
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Chapters:
00:00 Introducing the 4 guests: Abdullah Ustuner, Burak Yucesoy, Melanie Plageman, and Samay Sharma
04:14 Your first version of Postgres
11:30 Recent Postgres features that are great and may be new to the audience
16:11 Preview of Melanie Plageman’s talk at Citus Con 2023
17:15 Preview of Samay Sharma’s talk at Citus Con 2023
18:29 Common user challenges with Postgres
28:59 What will future Postgres users look like?
34:06 How the Postgres development process evolve with more users?
45:37 Extensions in Cloud service integrations
Melanie’s livestream talk Additional IO Observability in Postgres with pg_stat_io at Citus Con 2023: www.citusdata.com/cituscon/20...
Samay’s on demand talk Optimizing Postgres for write heavy workloads ft. Checkpoint and WAL configs at Citus Con 2023 : www.citusdata.com/cituscon/20...
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