Are you in the Pacific Northwest?
- Thursday Nov 6 at 6pm Bohan Zhang – a member of the technical staff at OpenAI – is returning to speak again at the Seattle Postgres User Group! This time, Bohan will be talking about how OpenAI runs Postgres – challenges faced, lessons learned from outages, and strategies implemented to scale PostgreSQL to handle millions of queries per second (QPS).
- Seattle Systems meetup still needs meetup locations to host us. If you are a company in the Seattle area with space for an in-depth technical talk and 50-100 people, then please reach out to Sitesh (I can help get you in touch).
Since January 2024 we’ve been recording the presentations at Seattle Postgres User Group. After some light editing and an opportunity for the speaker to take a final pass, we post them to YouTube. I’m perpetually behind (I do the editing myself) so you won’t find the videos from this fall yet – but we do have quite a few videos online! Many of these are talks that you can’t find anywhere else. We definitely love out-of-town speakers – but an explicit goal of the user group is also to be an easy place for folks here in Seattle to share what we know with each other, and to be an easy place for people to try out speaking with a small friendly group if they never have before.
https://www.youtube.com/@seattle-postgres
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| June 12 2025 | Noah Baculi | From Side Projects: Why We Chose Rust for Postgres + AI (YouTube) |
| May 7 2025 | Gwen Shapira | Re-engineering Postgres for Millions of Tenants (YouTube) |
| April 10 2025 | Jonathan Katz | Vectors: Best practices for a nasty data type (YouTube) |
| March 6 2025 | Harry Pierson | Time Travel Queries with Postgres (YouTube) |
| February 6 2025 | Rishu Bagga | Managing Transaction Metadata in PostgreSQL (YouTube) |
| December 5 2024 | Kellyn Gorman | Benchmarking PostgreSQL-Compatible DBs with HammerDB (YouTube) |
| October 10 2024 | Saraj Munjal | DDL Schema Migrations: Navigating the High-Scale Seas (YouTube) |
| September 5 2024 | Ben Chobot | Secure pgBouncer: Break Up With Passwords and Hook Up with AWS Aurora (YouTube) |
| June 6 2024 | Deon Gill | So You Want to Build a Postgres Server (YouTube) |
| May 2 2024 | Eric Lendvai | Datawharf and Wharf Systems (YouTube) |
| April 4 2024 | Jerry Sievert | Developing Your Own Postgres Database Extensions (YouTube) |
| March 7 2024 | Bohan Zhang | The Part Of PostgreSQL I Hate The Most: MVCC and How To Optimize It (YouTube) |
| January 18 2024 | Chelsea Dole | It’s Not You, It’s Me: “Breaking Up” With Massive Tables via Partitioning (YouTube) |
| March 2 2023 | — | Thoughts & Opportunities – Seattle PostgreSQL User Group (intro) (YouTube) |
By the way – if you’re wondering why our logo is a giant pink elephant, it’s because this is actually a well-known real historical landmark in Seattle!
https://www.meetup.com/seattle-postgres/
A couple people have noticed that we haven’t taken down the old website (which predated the meetup.com site) at https://seapug.org/ … we’ve been talking for several years now about updating this site but we’re all so busy that nothing has happened yet. Regardless, this site is an interesting window into Seattle Postgres User Group meetups all the way back to 2009 (!!)
Ardent Performance Computing 
Super – thank you for sharing!
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Posted by Hettie D. | October 13, 2025, 4:36 am