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EDB @edbpostgres.bsky.social · 21h

For @talkingpostgres.com @clairegiordano.bsky.social talked to Global Solutions Architect @tchorix.bsky.social about his marvelous brain, and ability to make connections that help people understand complex systems: talkingpostgres.com/episodes/the...

Boriss wrote a blog too: dev.to/bmejias/how-...

How I Learned to Embrace my Chaotic Brain

More than a decade ago, I applied for a job in Brussels and part of the process was to pass a...

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Talking Postgres @talkingpostgres.com · 11h

The Fundamental Interconnectedness of All Things with Boriss Mejías (E32) #TalkingPostgres talkingpostgres.com/episodes/the...

Talking Postgres with Claire Giordano | The Fundamental Interconnectedness of All Things with Boriss Mejías

What do chess clocks, jazz, and Postgres replication have in common? In Episode 32 of Talking Postgres, solution architect Boriss Mejías shares how the idea of “interconnectedness”—inspired by Doug...

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Talking Postgres @talkingpostgres.com · 11h

What went wrong (& what went right) with AIO with Andres Freund (E31) #TalkingPostgres talkingpostgres.com/episodes/wha...

Talking Postgres with Claire Giordano | What went wrong (& what went right) with AIO with Andres Freund

Six years, a prototype, and a brief multi-layered descent into “wronger and wronger” design—what does it take to land a major architectural change in Postgres? In Episode 31 of Talking Postgres, An...

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Claire Giordano ✨ @clairegiordano.bsky.social · 4d

🎙️ New @talkingpostgres.com podcast Ep32 just published

Boriss Mejías @tchorix.bsky.social explored the Fundamental Interconnectedness of All Things as a methodology for working with Postgres—& we connected lots of dots

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Claire Giordano ✨ @clairegiordano.bsky.social · 7d

Happening Wed Oct 8, a LIVE recording of the @talkingpostgres.com podcast w/guest @tchorix.bsky.social, about Postgres & The Fundamental Interconnectedness of All Things

Join Discord to be part of the parallel live text chat—or listen once Talking Postgres Ep32 is published aka.ms/talkingpostg...

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Talking Postgres @talkingpostgres.com · 23d

What went wrong (& what went right) with AIO with Andres Freund (E30) #TalkingPostgres talkingpostgres.com/episodes/wha...

Talking Postgres with Claire Giordano | What went wrong (& what went right) with AIO with Andres Freund

Six years, a prototype, and a brief multi-layered descent into “wronger and wronger” design—what does it take to land a major architectural change in Postgres? In Episode 31 of Talking Postgres, An...

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Claire Giordano ✨ @clairegiordano.bsky.social · 25d

🎙️ New @talkingpostgres.com podcast Ep31 just published!

Andres Freund @anarazel.de explored what went wrong (& what went right) with AIO in Postgres 18. Featuring io_uring, prototypes, streaming reads, CI, & why it took too long

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Photo of Postgres committer Andres Freund wearing glasses & a smile, along with the thumbnail for the Talking Postgres podcast

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Talking Postgres @talkingpostgres.com · Sep 9

"I've got several hundred open source projects that I'm maintaining right now. And the reason I'm doing that is purely to make sure I never have to solve the same problem twice." -Simon Willison #TalkingPostgres E30

Talking Postgres @talkingpostgres.com · Aug 23

AI for data engineers with Simon Willison (E30) #TalkingPostgres talkingpostgres.com/episodes/ai-...

Talking Postgres with Claire Giordano | AI for data engineers with Simon Willison

It’s always a good day if you see a pelican. In Episode 30 of Talking Postgres with Claire Giordano, open source developer Simon Willison—creator of Datasette and co-creator of Django—joins to expl...

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Aaron Wislang 🇨🇦 @aaronw.dev · Aug 29

- October 8, 2025 @ 10:00am PT: Talking Postgres: The Fundamental Interconnectedness of All Things with Boriss Mejías (E32)
- November 5, 2025 @ 10:00am PT: Talking Postgres: Building a dev experience for Postgres in VS Code with Rob Emanuele (E33)
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Aaron Wislang 🇨🇦 @aaronw.dev · Aug 29

Microsoft Open Source Discord - Upcoming Events (github.com/microsoft/op... ):
- September 17, 2025 @ 10:00am PT: Talking Postgres: What went wrong (and what went right) with AIO with Andres Freund (E31)
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GitHub - microsoft/open-source-discord: Welcome to the Microsoft Open Source Discord

Welcome to the Microsoft Open Source Discord. Contribute to microsoft/open-source-discord development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Talking Postgres @talkingpostgres.com · Aug 23

AI for data engineers with Simon Willison (E30) #TalkingPostgres talkingpostgres.com/episodes/ai-...

Talking Postgres with Claire Giordano | AI for data engineers with Simon Willison

It’s always a good day if you see a pelican. In Episode 30 of Talking Postgres with Claire Giordano, open source developer Simon Willison—creator of Datasette and co-creator of Django—joins to expl...

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Claire Giordano ✨ @clairegiordano.bsky.social · Aug 15

Hello! For those just discovering the @talkingpostgres.com podcast—and those already on this 30-episodes & counting #TalkingPostgres journey with me—we just dropped a new 3-minute trailer (02:52 to be precise) & it is FUN 🔥

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Claire Giordano ✨ @clairegiordano.bsky.social · Aug 8

🎙️ New @talkingpostgres.com #podcast Ep30 just published!

Guest @simonwillison.net talked about AI for data engineers. We skipped hype & boosterism to chat about Postgres permissions, alt text, 150-line SQL queries, & pelicans on 🚲

🎧 talkingpostgres.com/episodes/ai-...
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Bio pic of Simon Willison, wearing glasses and standing against pale brick wall, with his name in big letters and the Talking Postgres podcast square thumbnail in bottom left.

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Claire Giordano ✨ @clairegiordano.bsky.social · Aug 4

I'm so looking forward to having the amazing @simonwillison.net on the @talkingpostgres.com #podcast again, to discuss AI for data engineers (& #PostgreSQL people)

When? The LIVE recording is on Wed Aug 6th at 10am PDT

Join us on Discord to be part of parallel live text chat aka.ms/TalkingPostg...

Bio pics for Talking Postgres podcast guest Simon Willison and host Claire Giordano, along with the date for the live recording on Discord: Wed Aug 6th at 10:00am PDT. Also, the Ep30 title: "AI for data engineers"

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Talking Postgres @talkingpostgres.com · Jul 27

"...even at Microsoft in my first year I worked as a data scientist and in my second year, I made the switch to pure software engineering, to Postgres actually." -Arda Aytekin #TalkingPostgres E13

Talking Postgres @talkingpostgres.com · Apr 28

Spinning up on Postgres & AI with Arda Aytekin (E13) #TalkingPostgres talkingpostgres.com/episodes/spi...

Talking Postgres with Claire Giordano | Spinning up on Postgres & AI with Arda Aytekin

Everywhere you look, people are talking about AI. From Copilot to ChatGPT to Postgres’s powerful AI capabilities (think: pgvector), AI is everywhere. In this episode of Path To Citus Con*, for deve...

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Talking Postgres @talkingpostgres.com · Jul 27

"I think these are my best days. [...] That's what I prefer to do. Spend a lot of time on tough problems and then find beautiful solutions." -Derk van Veen #TalkingPostgres E12

Talking Postgres @talkingpostgres.com · Apr 26

From developer to PostgreSQL specialist with Derk van Veen (E12) #TalkingPostgres talkingpostgres.com/episodes/fro...

Talking Postgres with Claire Giordano | From developer to PostgreSQL specialist with Derk van Veen

The best days are when things don’t go as planned. Derk van Veen joined Claire Giordano and Pino de Candia on this episode of Path To Citus Con* podcast for developers who love Postgres—to discuss ...

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Talking Postgres @talkingpostgres.com · Jul 27

How I got started leading database teams with Shireesh Thota (E29) #TalkingPostgres talkingpostgres.com/episodes/how...

Talking Postgres with Claire Giordano | How I got started leading database teams with Shireesh Thota

From dreaming of driving a bus to leading database engineering at Microsoft. In Episode 29 of Talking Postgres with Claire Giordano, Shireesh Thota traces his path to becoming CVP of Azure database...

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Claire Giordano ✨ @clairegiordano.bsky.social · Jul 22

New blog post 📒 Bits of engineering wisdom from a year of the #TalkingPostgres #podcast 🎙️ ft. highlights from the past year, from past 13 episodes with #PostgreSQL guests like Tom Lane, Melanie Plageman, Bruce Momjian, Dawn Wages, Affan Dar, & more!
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Bits of wisdom from a year of Talking Postgres | Microsoft Community Hub

Highlights from the past 13 episodes of the monthly Talking Postgres podcast, featuring long-form conversations with PostgreSQL experts. Check it out and let...

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Claire Giordano ✨ @clairegiordano.bsky.social · Jul 11

🎙️ New #TalkingPostgres #podcast Ep29 just published!

Shireesh Thota once dreamed of driving a bus. Instead, he fell for math, BASIC, & engineering—& now leads all database work at Microsoft.

🎧 talkingpostgres.com/episodes/how...
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#PostgreSQL #Azure #VSCode #opensource

Talking Postgres with Claire Giordano | How I got started leading database teams with Shireesh Thota

From dreaming of driving a bus to leading database engineering at Microsoft. In Episode 29 of Talking Postgres with Claire Giordano, Shireesh Thota traces his path to becoming CVP of Azure database...

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Claire Giordano ✨ @clairegiordano.bsky.social · Jul 1

Full disclosure: I'm a bit biased. But if you’re into #PostgreSQL (or open source more generally), @talkingpostgres.com might become your next favorite podcast 🎙️

Ep20 with Tom Lane—core team member, major contributor, Postgres committer—is a good place to start
🎧 talkingpostgres.com/episodes/how...

Bio pic of Tom Lane along with the name and elephant mascot for the Talking Postgres podcast and a quote from Ep20 with Tom Lane in which Tom says, "One of the interesting things about working in open source is that your failures are inherently extremely public. You can't look the other way and pretend it didn't happen because there it is in the commit log. Anybody can see and you just have to own up to it and deal with it."

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Talking Postgres @talkingpostgres.com · Jun 20

12 years of Postgres Weekly with Peter Cooper (E28) #TalkingPostgres talkingpostgres.com/episodes/12-...

Talking Postgres with Claire Giordano | 12 years of Postgres Weekly with Peter Cooper

What drives someone to publish 600+ issues of a Postgres newsletter for over a decade? In Episode 28 of Talking Postgres with Claire Giordano, Peter Cooper—creator of Postgres Weekly—shares how his...

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Claire Giordano ✨ @clairegiordano.bsky.social · Jun 20

🎙️ New #TalkingPostgres #podcast episode!

Peter Cooper joined to talk about 12 years of Postgres Weekly—with QBASIC Usenet fanzines, the BBC big tent, lots of #PostgreSQL, weekly newsletters for 460K devs, & 1 very cheesy story 🧀

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Claire Giordano ✨ @clairegiordano.bsky.social · Jun 17

Happening Wed 18 Jun at 12noon PDT (new time this time) is a LIVE recording of Ep28 of the #TalkingPostgres #podcast with guest Peter Cooper to talk about "12 years of Postgres Weekly"

Join us on Discord for the parallel live text chat aka.ms/TalkingPostg...

#PostgreSQL #PostgresWeekly

Bio pics of podcast guest Peter Cooper and Talking Postgres podcast host Claire Giordano. Also displayed is the elephant mascot for the podcast, plus the date and time of the LIVE recording for Ep28 on Wed June 18th at 12noon PDT. The episode title is: "12 years of Postgres Weekly"

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Talking Postgres @talkingpostgres.com · May 16

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