Claire Giordano

PostgreSQL is one of the most important data platforms in the world, powering everything from startups to some of the largest enterprise and SaaS applications in production today. Microsoft's investment in PostgreSQL spans the upstream open-source community, cloud-scale database services, and the tools developers use to build modern applications.

If you’re new to Postgres, replication can feel like alphabet soup: logical, physical, streaming, synchronous, asynchronous—and that’s just the core features. This is the replication primer I wish I’d had when I first started working with Postgres.

How do we find and nurture the next generation of open source contributors? Unlike commercial companies, open source projects don’t have legions of recruiters to bring people into the fold—and yet our projects need a steady stream of new contributors.

Ever wonder who makes Postgres happen? Not just the new features in Postgres 18—but the people, the processes, and the invisible work that brings each new release to life?

When I first got into software engineering, I thought studying history was a waste of time. I’ve since learned that understanding how people got where they are—and what they learned along the way—is one of the fastest ways to level up.

A series of short talks, each a maximum of 5 minutes long, submitted by attendees and selected during the conference itself. Details on how the talks were submitted/selected are available here

Partitioning has come a long way in Postgres since the Postgres 10 days, as has sharding via the Citus extension. If you need to scale your Postgres, your friends may recommend you look into partitioning and/or sharding.

Partitioning has come a long way in Postgres since the Postgres 10 days, as has sharding via the Citus extension. If you need to scale your Postgres, your friends may recommend you look into partitioning and/or sharding.

Microsoft is investing a lot in Postgres—including in the Postgres core, Citus open source, Patroni, PgBouncer, pgcopydb, pg_cron, & more Postgres extensions. And Microsoft offers two Azure managed services for PostgreSQL, one is regular and one is distributed Postgres built on Citus.

Postgres extensions are everywhere—and are found in oh so many Postgres deployments. You might even say that PG extensions are the tools that make your Postgres toolbox complete.

One of the sayings about development in the Postgres world is “it’s not just open source, it’s open engineering.” In the spirit of openness, this talk will show you how to increase the impact and the reach of your Postgres blog posts. These best practices begin with empathy for your readers—and cover lots of ground from there, including key things to know about SEO, as well as tips on how to…

One of the sayings about development in the Postgres world is “it’s not just open source, it’s open engineering.” In the spirit of openness, this talk will walk you through a set of things you can do to make your Postgres blog posts reach a lot more people. These best practices begin with empathy for your readers—and cover lots of ground from there, including key things to know about SEO...

This talk shines a light on the different ways can you contribute to the PostgreSQL open source project. From patches to docs to translations to advocacy to demos—as well as sharing what you’ve learned as a Postgres user story—there are many avenues to contribute.

Postgres is growing like gangbusters: in popularity, in adoption, and in the size of the ecosystem. And over 400 developers contribute code to Postgres today: their expertise, design chops, and skill are big factors in the increasing popularity of Postgres.

Postgres is growing like gangbusters: in popularity, in adoption, and in the size of the ecosystem. And over 400 developers contribute code to Postgres today: their expertise, design chops, and skill are big factors in the increasing popularity of Postgres.