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Postgres Booth at PASS Data Community Summit
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
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 … Continue reading
Good Benchmark Engineers and Postgres Benchmark Week
There are four major components to being a good benchmark engineer: Methodology: A good benchmark engineer defines the goals and non-goals of the exercise, makes strong choices on variables in the experiment, configures the SUT in a valid manner, and makes smart decisions about when and how to iterate the test. Investigation: A good benchmark … Continue reading
Seattle Postgres User Group and PASS Summit – PGSQL Phriday #014
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
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
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
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