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Postgres Booth at PASS Data Community Summit

Posted by Jeremy ⋅ November 30, 2025 ⋅ Leave a comment

PASS Data Community Summit 2025 wrapped up last week. This conference originated 25 years ago with the independent, user-led, not-for-profit “Professional Association for SQL Server (PASS)” and the annual summit in Seattle continues to attract thousands of database professionals each year. After the pandemic it was reorganized and broadened as a “Data Community” event, including … Continue reading →

Seattle Postgres User Group Video Library

Posted by Jeremy ⋅ October 12, 2025 ⋅ 1 Comment

Are you in the Pacific Northwest? 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 … Continue reading →

Good Benchmark Engineers and Postgres Benchmark Week

Posted by Jeremy ⋅ August 18, 2024 ⋅ Leave a comment

There are four major components to being a good benchmark engineer: Apparently it’s benchmark week in the Postgres world. I only have two data points but that’s enough for me! First data point: I’m visiting Portland. This Thursday Aug 22, the Portland Postgres Users Group (PDXPUG) is having a meetup where Paul Jungwirth is going … Continue reading →

Seattle Postgres User Group and PASS Summit – PGSQL Phriday #014

Posted by Jeremy ⋅ December 1, 2023 ⋅ 3 Comments

This month’s PGSQL Phriday #014 is about PostgreSQL Events, and it’s a great time to give an update about the Seattle Postgres User Group where I’ve been working together with long-time organizer Lloyd Albin. At the beginning of this year, I wrote about re-starting our meetups post-pandemic. This Thursday is our final meetup of 2023 … Continue reading →

Seattle User Group Thoughts and Fall Opportunities

Posted by Jeremy ⋅ March 7, 2023 ⋅ 1 Comment

Last Thursday was the first in-person Seattle Postgres Users Group meetup since early 2020. We didn’t formally track attendee companies, but I recall having Apple, AWS, Fred Hutch, Google, Microsoft and OtterTune all represented. Besides the presentation about performance, we also had pizza and drinks and a book table. I happily loaned out my copy … Continue reading →

Seattle PostgreSQL Meetup This Thursday: New Location

Posted by Jeremy ⋅ June 18, 2019

I’m looking forward to the Seattle PostgreSQL User Group meetup this Thursday (June 20, 2019) at 5:30pm! We’re going to get an early sneak peek at what’s coming later this year in PostgreSQL’s next major release. The current velocity of development in this open source community is staggering and this is an exciting and valuable … Continue reading →