Why give talks at Postgres conferences with Álvaro Herrera & Boriss Mejías
07/06/23 • 64 min
Álvaro Herrera, and Boriss Mejías, both longtime members of the Postgres developer community, explore the value of giving conference talks—as well as the work involved, the time it takes, and the many different types of conference talks, including presentations about about failure and things that have gone wrong.
In this episode of Path To Citus Con*, Claire and Pino guide the conversation on questions like: Should you add humor to your talks? How does your personality—introvert or extrovert—affect your conference presentations? Is it OK to give the same conference talk at different events?
*[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 of the links mentioned in the order they appeared:
- Postgres Storytelling: Support in the Darkest Hour: Boriss’ Citus Con talk
- A Curious Moon book by Rob Conery
- Tomas Vondra's talks on YouTube
- pgDay Paris 2022
- FOSDEM PostgreSQL devroom
- FOSDEM PGDAY 2023
- Nordic PGDay 2022
- PGConf.EU 2022
- LFMF: How a CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY led to a 6 hour downtime by Gunnar "Nick" Bluth
Álvaro Herrera, and Boriss Mejías, both longtime members of the Postgres developer community, explore the value of giving conference talks—as well as the work involved, the time it takes, and the many different types of conference talks, including presentations about about failure and things that have gone wrong.
In this episode of Path To Citus Con*, Claire and Pino guide the conversation on questions like: Should you add humor to your talks? How does your personality—introvert or extrovert—affect your conference presentations? Is it OK to give the same conference talk at different events?
*[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 of the links mentioned in the order they appeared:
- Postgres Storytelling: Support in the Darkest Hour: Boriss’ Citus Con talk
- A Curious Moon book by Rob Conery
- Tomas Vondra's talks on YouTube
- pgDay Paris 2022
- FOSDEM PostgreSQL devroom
- FOSDEM PGDAY 2023
- Nordic PGDay 2022
- PGConf.EU 2022
- LFMF: How a CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY led to a 6 hour downtime by Gunnar "Nick" Bluth
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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
Next Episode
How I got started as a dev and in Postgres with Melanie Plageman & Thomas Munro
In this episode of Path To Citus Con*, Melanie Plageman, a PostgreSQL hacker working at Microsoft, and Thomas Munro, PostgreSQL developer and committer also at Microsoft talk with co-hosts Claire Giordano and Pino de Candia. They talk through all the different ways they got started as developers. Does making your first patch to Postgres get you hooked for a lifetime? Do you have to be a tinkerer to be a good software engineer? What is the “toothbrush test”—and how do you make your avocation be your vocation? We hear stories about dropping out of school or dropped out of career fields before they found their true passions in development and Postgres.
*[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 of the links mentioned in the order they were said:
- Parallelism in PostgreSQL 15: Thomas’ Citus Con talk
- Additional IO Observability in Postgres with pg_stat_io: Melanie’s Citus Con talk
- Visualizing PostgreSQL I/O Performance for Development: Melanie’s talk at PGCon 2023
- Add pg_stat_io view, providing more detailed IO statistics, committed by Melanie Plageman in PG 16
- Neil deGrasse Tyson’s podcast StarTalk
- From Nand to Tetris by Noam Nisan and Shimon Schocken
- Sinclair ZX81
- All Things Open conference
- PostgreSQL BuildFarm
- Queues in PostgreSQL: Thomas’ 2022 talk
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