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Claire Giordano ✨
@clairegiordano.bsky.social
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Love sailing ⛵️ in Greece, #PostgreSQL, open source, NH, POSETTE: An Event for Postgres #PosetteConf, chocolate 🐕 labs, my work @ Microsoft, the #TalkingPostgres #podcast—& taking pics with my phone. Not necessarily in that order. Opinions are my own.
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🎙️ New @talkingpostgres.com podcast Ep34 is out!

Postgres committer & major contributor Melanie Plageman of Microsoft joined to dig into what developers & the community will get out of @pgconf.dev (CFP will close on Jan 16)

🎧 talkingpostgres.com/episodes/wha...
📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHs1...
Smiling photo of Talking Postgres podcast guest from Ep34, Melanie Plageman from Microsoft who is a Postgres committer and major contributor
December 12, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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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!

Cal invite w/ details on how to join: aka.ms/TalkingPostg...
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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Just learned about @pyladiescon.bsky.social —happening virtually on Fri & Sat Dec 5-6

@bajoran.engineer is one of the keynoters!

Dingding Lu + Gauri Kasar from the Postgres team on Azure are teaching a Postgres workshop about agentic AI & GraphRAG (Sat Dec 6 @ 10am PT) pretalx.com/pyladiescon-...
PyLadiesCon 2025 poster with bio pics of Gauri Kasar and Dingding Lu from MIcrosoft, along with the title of their 1.5 hour workshop: "Build Agentic AI with Semantic Kernel and GraphRAG on PostgreSQL"
December 4, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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This Talking Postgres Ep33 w/Rob Emanuele was SO MUCH FUN. I loved it all: (1) origin story as a musician, (2) views on developer experience, (3) explaining the new VS Code extension for Postgres, (4) perspectives on creativity & improv, (5) how he no longer codes the way he used to code, (6) more!
screenshot of Rob Emanuele, Claire Giordano, & Aaron Wislang on Discord with big smiles on all their faces as they prepared for Ep33 of the Talking Postgres podcast
November 8, 2025 at 9:35 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...
📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UuF...
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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Happening on Wed 5 Nov at 10am PST, a LIVE recording of Ep33 of the @talkingpostgres.com podcast with guest Rob Emanuele, to talk about "Building a dev experience for Postgres in VS Code"

Join us on Discord to be part of the parallel live text chat: aka.ms/TalkingPostg...
Bio pics for guest Rob Emanuele and host Claire Giordano for Ep 33 of the Talking Postgres podcast, about "Building a dev experience for Postgres in VS Code", which will be recorded LIVE on Wed Nov 5th at 10:00am PST
November 5, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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On my way to my 6th @pgconf.eu — this time in Riga ‼️ So excited to see #PostgreSQL people 🐘 & attend all these great talks. If you are there, come say hello at the Microsoft stand 👋
Standing in front of airplane, smiling, about to board
October 19, 2025 at 12:13 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

🎧 talkingpostgres.com/episodes/the...
📺 youtu.be/S63usJYcw-k?...
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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Hey #PostgreSQL ppl here at @pgconfnyc.bsky.social #PGConfNYC! Be sure to come say hello (I'll be in hallways, sessions, or the Microsoft booth)

If you want to learn about "Ten Postgres Hacker Journeys—and what they teach us", I'm giving a talk today at 4:00pm EDT

postgresql.us/events/pgcon...
Cover slide for Claire Giordano talk at PGConfNYC 2025 titled "Ten Postgres Hacker Journeys—and what they teach us" with circle headshots of the 10 PostgreSQL hackers who are quoted in this presentation
September 29, 2025 at 5:25 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

🎧 talkingpostgres.com/episodes/wha...
📺 youtu.be/bVei7-AyMJ8?...
Photo of Postgres committer Andres Freund wearing glasses & a smile, along with the thumbnail for the Talking Postgres podcast
September 19, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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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 🔥

🎧 talkingpostgres.com/episodes/tal...
📺 youtu.be/ZWMb9qmTpSY?...
The square podcast thumbnail for Talking Postgres with Claire Giordano plus the words "Podcast TRAILER" underneath
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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On Wed Jul 9 at 10am PDT, we're doing a LIVE recording of Ep29 of the #TalkingPostgres #podcast 🎙️ with guest Shireesh Thota—to talk about how he got started leading database teams.

➡️ Join us on Discord to be part of the parallel live text chat. Cal invite: aka.ms/TalkingPostg...
Bio pics for Talking Postgres podcast guest Shireesh Thota (and host Claire Giordano) along with podcast elephant mascot and the date and episode 29 title: How I got started leading database teams
July 9, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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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."
July 1, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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🎙️ 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 🧀

🎧 talkingpostgres.com/episodes/12-...
📺 youtu.be/F1eWSAVKxdY?...
Photo of Peter Cooper, the founder & editor of Postgres Weekly (as well as 6 other popular developer newsletters that reach nearly half a million developers each week), wearing dark framed eyeglasses, a Hawaiian shirt, and with just a hint of a smile on his face
June 20, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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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"
June 17, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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Backstage pic moments before the 1st @posetteconf.com livestream, with #PosetteConf chair @tgcmn1.bsky.social & co-host @floord.bsky.social as well as producer Dwight & the amazing Isaac Alves. So many good Postgres talks for y'all today!

Join us at posetteconf.com LS1 on Tue June 10 at 8:00am PT
screenshot from Streamyard before Livestream 1 begins at POSETTE: An Event for Postgres 2025 (this is our 4th year, wow)
June 10, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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This week the @pgconf.dev conference is happening in Montréal—& it's so good to reconnect with #PostgreSQL friends, catch up with Microsoft teammates, & prep for my talk on "What 10 Postgres major contributors did to become a hacker" ft. some amazing PG contributors. If you're here, come say hello 👋
Screenshot of cover slide about a PGConf.dev talk titled "What 10 Postgres Major Contributors Did to Become a Hacker" by Claire Giordano, with bio pics from the 10 contributors
May 14, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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On way to #PGConfdev @pgconf.dev & am so excited to see all the wonderful #PostgreSQL people 👋👋 (And to share my new talk) — See y’all soon!
Smiling person in black jacket seated on airplane
May 12, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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New episode of @talkingpostgres.com #podcast 🎙️

In Ep27, Peter Farkas of FerretDB shares how a Himalayan trek led to an open source MongoDB alternative on Postgres (& DocumentDB) Plus: FerretDB's original name, and Trappist cheese 🧀

🎧 talkingpostgres.com/episodes/how...
📺 youtu.be/dQfD00bDMqo?...
Bio pic of Episode 27 guest on the Talking Postgres podcast, Peter Farkas
May 9, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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This week we'll record Ep27 of the @talkingpostgres.com monthly podcast. Join us!

Guest: Peter Farkas
Topic: How I got started with FerretDB (& why we chose Postgres)
When: Wed May 7 @ 10am PDT
Where: LIVE recording on Microsoft Open Source Discord

Mark your calendar: aka.ms/TalkingPostg...
Bio pics for Talking Postgres podcast guest Peter Farkas and monthly host Claire Giordano, along with the Episode 27 title "How I got started wtih FerretDB (& why we chose Postgres)" and the date and time for the LIVE recording on the Microsoft Open Source Discord: Wed May 7th at 10am PDT
May 6, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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New episode of @talkingpostgres.com #podcast 🎙️

Bruce Momjian, #PostgreSQL core team member, joined #TalkingPostgres Ep26 to talk open source leadership—with rabbitholes on servant leadership, the art of public speaking, & bow ties

🎧 talkingpostgres.com/episodes/ope...

📺 youtu.be/gYG3FP-Csho?...
Bio pic for Talking Postgres Ep26 podcast guest Bruce Momjian
April 4, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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On Wed Apr 2 @ 10am PDT, we'll do a LIVE recording of Ep26 of @talkingpostgres.com #podcast on the Microsoft Open Source Discord

📣 Guest: Bruce Momjian of EDB, member of #PostgreSQL core team
✅ Topic: Open Source Leadership
🗓️ Cal invite to join us on parallel live text chat aka.ms/TalkingPostg...
Bio pics of Talking Postgres podcast guest Bruce Momjian and host Claire Giordano along with the date and time of the LIVE recording of Episode 26 on the topic of Open Source Leadership, happening Wed Apr 2nd at 10:00am PDT
April 2, 2025 at 6:33 AM