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Postgres evangelist, open-source ambassador, recovering enterprise architect
New York, USA
Joined March 2009
Tiger Open Source 🐯📈🚀 I'm personally super thrilled to see the community embracing our open source contributions. Of course I shouldn't be surprised, this team is awesome. @TigerDatabase @TimescaleDB
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Biscuit is a PostgreSQL index that accelerates LIKE and ILIKE wildcard pattern matching using in-memory bitmap indexing. They use Roaring Bitmaps so you know it is going to be good. https://t.co/W6hcH0DexU
https://t.co/HybZjJ5Rpt
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Best Christmas gift for the technologists in your life and work.. give them a “career upgrade” 🤗 truly a labor of love @denismagda
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At #AWSReinvent @MongoDB offers us #AWSHeroes as a courtesy access to their lounge. They invited me there to participate in this skill exam. Me, a Postgres guy?? 10 questions, 1h. I did it in 5 mins in the shuttle to Mandalay Bay. How a relational guy would answer the test? 😅
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Godzilla
Apparently if you’re right-brained you see a rabbit, if you’re left-brained you see a turtle. What do you see
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The first printed copies of the "Just use Postgres!" book are now available for purchase on the Manning website. You can order today and start learning core and extended Postgres capabilities during the upcoming holiday breaks. Chapter after chapter, you'll discover (or
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Did the pilot eject safely?
Russia presented its human-like AI robot. It fell down as it walked onto the stage.
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Satan ☺️
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NYers had too.. and choose a new path
Zohran really had to defeat racist republicans, democrats, AND billionaires at the same time.
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Stop fighting Postgres issues. Keep shipping features. Introducing new @postgres_ai, it takes care of your Postgres. Removes unused and redundant indexes, mitigates bloat — all automated with PR-based approvals for full control. Early access: https://t.co/hC8u5eWWQC
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Shumai 😻
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and a visualization of UUIDv7 and how it changes with time - or how it changes within the same millisecond
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this is an emergent architecture that has been development for quite a while.. and usually accidentally discovered by creative engineers.. good to see it surfacing with more formal design patterns #postgres
Orchestrating external engines is a mind 🤯 idea that is being presented by Sweta Vooda at #PGIBZ25 on her talk Postgres as a Control Plane
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pepperoni pizza gone wrong
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Post Modern Data Stack is just putting data back in S3 like the lord intended.
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Removed Clean Code from my students’ reading list this year. Replaced it with The Pragmatic Programmer. No regrets.
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marry someone who says: - i love you - i'm proud of you - i'm grateful for you - yes you can buy another domain - no 3 new domains isn't too many - i wish we could afford more domains - should we buy another domain?
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a truly ambitious and fundamental design decision from the original team in Berkeley.. and the long payoff.. an extensible database engine #postgres
Your periodic reminder the genius of @postgres is that it has one query engine, but extensible data and index types. That means I can have a database with: * Full-text search * Geographic Information System support * Time series support * … and construct queries using all of
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