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Talking Postgres is a podcast for developers who love Postgres. Guests join Claire Giordano (@clairegiordano.bsky.social) each month to discuss the human side of PostgreSQL, databases, and open source. 🐘 https://talkingpostgres.com
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Building a dev experience for Postgres in VS Code with Rob Emanuele (E33) #TalkingPostgres talkingpostgres.com/episodes/bui...
Talking Postgres with Claire Giordano | Building a dev experience for Postgres in VS Code with Rob Emanuele
What do guitar busking, geospatial queries, and agentic coding have to do with Postgres? In Episode 33 of Talking Postgres, principal engineer Rob Emanuele at Microsoft shares his winding path from...
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Happening Wed Dec 10 at 10:00a PST, a LIVE recording of the #TalkingPostgres #podcast on Discord

Guest: Karen Jex @karenhjex.bsky.social
Topic: How I got started as a DBA (& in Postgres)

Join us to be part of the parallel text chat!

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Bio pics of podcast guest Karen Jex and Talking Postgres host Claire Giordano along with date and time of the LIVE recording of Ep34 of this podcast, happening on Discord: Wed Dec 10th at 10:00am PST. Ep34 title also is listed: "How I got started as a DBA (& in Postgres)"
December 10, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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Talking about experimentation on the Talking Postgres podcast by Rob Emanuele youtube.com/shorts/1STFr...
Talking about experimentation on the Talking Postgres podcast.
YouTube video by Rob Emanuele
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November 13, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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📣 Have a PostgreSQL insight to share? The call for proposals (CFP) for POSETTE: An Event for POSETTE 2026 is OPEN! 🎉

* Free & virtual
* June 16–18, 2026
* Organized by the #PostgreSQL team at Microsoft

Submit by Feb 1, 2026 → posetteconf.com/2026/cfp/

#PosetteConf #Postgres #CFP
Graphic announcing POSETTE: An Event for Postgres 2026. Text reads ‘CFP is Open. Submit by Sun Feb 01, 2026 | 11:59pm PST.’ Includes Microsoft logo and hashtag #PosetteConf. Design features a stylized blue and purple elephant head illustration on the right.
November 12, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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Building a dev experience for Postgres in VS Code with Rob Emanuele (E33) #TalkingPostgres talkingpostgres.com/episodes/bui...
Talking Postgres with Claire Giordano | Building a dev experience for Postgres in VS Code with Rob Emanuele
What do guitar busking, geospatial queries, and agentic coding have to do with Postgres? In Episode 33 of Talking Postgres, principal engineer Rob Emanuele at Microsoft shares his winding path from...
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November 8, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Postgres + VS Code fans - this podcast episode is for you!

Learn all about building a dev experience for Postgres in VS Code
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November 7, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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🎙️ New @talkingpostgres.com podcast Ep33 is out!

Microsoft engineer Rob Emanuele joined to discuss building a dev experience for Postgres in VS Code @vscode.dev + geospatial queries, guitar busking, creativity & agentic coding

🎧 talkingpostgres.com/episodes/bui...
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Bio pic for Rob Emanuele the Ep33 podcast guest on Talking Postgres (where he talks about building a dev experience for Postgres in VS Code)
November 7, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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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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October 14, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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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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October 14, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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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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October 14, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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🎙️ 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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Pic of Postgres solution architect Boriss Mejías on stage at PGDay Lowlands 2024, along with his name in bigger letters and the Talking Postgres podcast thumbnail
October 10, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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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...
Headshot pics of podcast guest Boriss Mejías & host Claire Giordano along with the title of Talking Postgres Ep32: "The Fundamental Interconnectedness of All Things", which will be recorded live on Wed Oct 8th at 10:00am PDT
October 7, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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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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September 21, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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🎙️ 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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September 19, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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"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
September 9, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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- 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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August 29, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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- 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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August 29, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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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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August 23, 2025 at 5:12 AM
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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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August 15, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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🎙️ 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-...
📺 youtu.be/8SAqeJHsmRM?...
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.
August 8, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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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"
August 4, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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"...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
July 27, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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"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
July 27, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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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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July 27, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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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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July 22, 2025 at 5:00 PM