Just Postgres (Interview)

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

This week we’re talking about by Postgres with Craig Kerstiens, Chief Product Officer at Crunchy Data, and a well known ambassador for Postgres. Just Postgres. That’s what this week’s show is about.

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Featuring:

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Show Notes:

• webstack
• The Art of PostgreSQL
• Crunchy Data
• Postgres Playground
• The Changelog #510: Taking Postgres serverless with Nikita Shamgunov from Neon

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Capitole

1. This week on The Changelog (00:00:00)

2. Sponsor: Sentry (00:00:53)

https://sentry.io/demo/sandbox/

3. Start the show! (00:01:32)

4. Why did you choose Postgres? (00:04:28)

5. Heroku's impact on Postgres (00:05:21)

6. Are you involved in the core team? (00:10:14)

7. Postgres-compatible IS NOT Postgres (00:20:35)

8. Sponsor: Postman (00:23:06)

https://www.postman.com/changelogpod

9. There's many ways to extend Postgres (00:24:21)

10. Business opportunities? (00:33:02)

11. How does Postgres accept patches? (00:36:24)

12. What new for Postgres? (00:43:21)

13. Postgres: The bad parts (00:48:25)

14. Postgres: The good parts? (00:49:19)

15. Postgres Serverless native support? (00:53:16)

16. Serverless presents a business challenge (00:56:27)

17. The "free tier" is changing (01:00:38)

18. Postgres in the browser (01:03:04)

19. Powered by Notion (01:04:20)

20. What's left? What's next? (01:06:22)

21. Backstage on BBQ? (01:09:05)

22. Closing out the show (01:09:40)

23. Outro (01:10:07)