How to get Postgres ready for the next 100 million users

Join Claire and Pino as they talk with Citus and Postgres open source team members to explore how to get Postgres ready for the next 100 million users. What will future Postgres users look like? How will the Postgres development process evolve with more users? What are the common challenges faced by Postgres users?

Citus open source team members Abdullah Ustuner and Burak Yucesoy are joined by Postgres open source teammates Melanie Plageman and Samay Sharma—and co-hosts Claire Giordano and Pino de Candia—in this episode of Path To Citus Con*. Listen to the deep dive on what it means to scale the code and the community far beyond the Postgres world of today.

*[Update: July 2024] 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: https://talkingpostgres.com

Some links from the show in the order they were mentioned:

• Additional IO Observability in Postgres: Melanie's talk at Citus Con 2023
• Optimizing Postgres for write heavy workloads ft. Checkpoint and WAL configs: Samay's talk at Citus Con 2023
• The Design of Postgres, by Michael Stonebraker and Lawrence A. Rowe, 1986
• HyperLogLog
• PostGIS
• timescale/pgspot