Why-PostgreSQL-Why-This-Database-Why-Now-SFBayAreaPostgres-23July2019-Claire-Giordano-Microsoft.pdf

I spent the early part of my career working on developer tools, operating systems, high-speed file systems, and scale-out storage. Not databases. Frankly, I always thought that databases were a bit boring. So almost 2 years in to my new job at a Postgres company, I continue to be amazed at the enthusiasm of the PostgreSQL developer community and users. I mean, people’s eyes light up when you ask them why they love Postgres. Sure, a lot of us get animated when talking about our newest gadget, or Ronaldo’s phenomenal free-kick goal in the World Cup, or mint chip gelato from La Strega Nocciola—but most platform software simply doesn’t trigger this kind of passion. So why does Postgres? Why is this open source database having such a “moment”? Well, I’ve been trying to understand, looking at this “Postgres moment” from a few different angles. In this talk I’ll share what I’ve observed to be the top 10 business, technology, and community reasons so many of you have so much affection for PostgreSQL.

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1. SF Bay Area PostgreSQL Meetup | San Francisco Why PostgreSQL Why This Database Why Now Claire Giordano, Citus Data / Microsoft @clairegiordano / @citusdata / @azuredbpostgres Now Part of Microsoft SF Bay Area PostgreSQL Meetup 7.23.19
2. SF Bay Area PostgreSQL Meetup | San Francisco Hi, I’m Claire—and I’m a Principal PM Manager at Microsoft, by way of the recent Citus Data acquisition, where I was VP of Marketing.
3. SF Bay Area PostgreSQL Meetup | San Francisco Hi, I’m Claire—and I’m a Principal PM Manager at Microsoft, by way of the recent Citus Data acquisition, where I was VP of Marketing. Engineering > Product > Marketing
4. SF Bay Area PostgreSQL Meetup | San Francisco Preferred programming language Hi, I’m Claire—and I’m a Principal PM Manager at Microsoft, by way of the recent Citus Data acquisition, where I was VP of Marketing. Engineering > Product > Marketing
5. SF Bay Area PostgreSQL Meetup | San Francisco Preferred programming language Hi, I’m Claire—and I’m a Principal PM Manager at Microsoft, by way of the recent Citus Data acquisition, where I was VP of Marketing. @clairegiordano @citusdata @microsoft Citus Data > Microsoft Engineering > Product > Marketing
6. SF Bay Area PostgreSQL Meetup | July 2019 | San Francisco
7. SF Bay Area PostgreSQL Meetup | July 2019 | San Francisco 7 @clairegiordano
8. SF Bay Area PostgreSQL Meetup | July 2019 | San Francisco 8 Peop le’s eyes ligh t up @clairegiordano
9. SF Bay Area PostgreSQL Meetup | July 2019 | San Francisco 9
10. SF Bay Area PostgreSQL Meetup | July 2019 | San Francisco 10 Peter Eisentraut
11. SF Bay Area PostgreSQL Meetup | July 2019 | San Francisco 11 Dimitri Fontaine at PGConfEU 2018. Photo by Claire Giordano. Peter Eisentraut at PGConfEU 2018. Photo by Claire Giordano. Lætitia Avrot at PGConfEU 2018. Photo by Claire Giordano. Stephen Frost at PGConfEU 2018. Photo by Claire Giordano.
12. SF Bay Area PostgreSQL Meetup | July 2019 | San Francisco Why PostgreSQL? Why This Database? Why Now? ? @clairegiordano
13. SF Bay Area PostgreSQL Meetup | July 2019 | San Francisco SF Bay Area PostgreSQL Meetup | July 2019 | San Francisco people have so much affection for PostgreSQL 10 reasons @clairegiordano
14. SF Bay Area PostgreSQL Meetup | July 2019 | San Francisco Open Source 1 @clairegiordano 0 Octocat icon courtesy of GitHub
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18. SF Bay Area PostgreSQL Meetup | July 2019 | San Francisco SF Bay Area PostgreSQL Meetup | July 2019 | San Francisco ECOSYSTEM
19. SF Bay Area PostgreSQL Meetup | July 2019 | San Francisco
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21. SF Bay Area PostgreSQL Meetup | July 2019 | San Francisco SF Bay Area PostgreSQL Meetup | July 2019 | San Francisco It’s not open source, it’s open engineering.” possibly Simon Riggs, 2nd Quadrant “
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23. SF Bay Area PostgreSQL Meetup | July 2019 | San Francisco Come for the code. Stay for the community.
24. SF Bay Area PostgreSQL Meetup | July 2019 | San Francisco Community 9 @clairegiordano Photo courtesy of @pgconfeu, Oct 2018 Lisbon
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28. SF Bay Area PostgreSQL Meetup | July 2019 | San Francisco Source: https://www.pgcon.org/2016/schedule/events/890.en.html
29. SF Bay Area PostgreSQL Meetup | July 2019 | San Francisco 29 @clairegiordano Not Oracle 8
30. SF Bay Area PostgreSQL Meetup | July 2019 | San Francisco Source: Manu Cornet. Bonkers World. http://bonkersworld.net/organizational-charts
31. SF Bay Area PostgreSQL Meetup | July 2019 | San Francisco 7 @clairegiordano Permissive license
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33. SF Bay Area PostgreSQL Meetup | July 2019 | San Francisco SF Bay Area PostgreSQL Meetup | July 2019 | San Francisco Forks make the community strong.” —Peter van Hardenberg, Illustrated History of Postgres “
34. SF Bay Area PostgreSQL Meetup | July 2019 | San Francisco https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/PostgreSQL_derived_databases
35. SF Bay Area PostgreSQL Meetup | July 2019 | San Francisco 6 Trust Hardened Data Integrity Maintainability @clairegiordano
36. SF Bay Area PostgreSQL Meetup | July 2019 | San Francisco @clairegiordano
37. SF Bay Area PostgreSQL Meetup | July 2019 | San Francisco 5 Heroku helped to popularize Postgres @clairegiordano
38. SF Bay Area PostgreSQL Meetup | July 2019 | San Francisco 4NoSQL did not eat the world @clairegiordano
39. SF Bay Area PostgreSQL Meetup | July 2019 | San Francisco 39 Postgres is heating up Source: Hacker News Hiring Trends through March 2019 | hntrends.com Postgres MySQL MongoDB
40. SF Bay Area PostgreSQL Meetup | July 2019 | San Francisco @clairegiordano 3 Timing of JSON & JSONB support
41. SF Bay Area PostgreSQL Meetup | July 2019 | San Francisco 2 @clairegiordano CREATE EXTENSION postgis; PostGIS Photo by Claire Giordano
42. SF Bay Area PostgreSQL Meetup | July 2019 | San Francisco SF Bay Area PostgreSQL Meetup | July 2019 | San Francisco 42 PostGIS is the industry standard way to model spatial data in a database PostGIS graphic courtesy of www.postgis.net
43. SF Bay Area PostgreSQL Meetup | July 2019 | San Francisco SF Bay Area PostgreSQL Meetup | July 2019 | San Francisco 43 PostGIS matters because location is the universal foreign key” PostGIS graphic courtesy of www.postgis.net “ —Paul Ramsey
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45. SF Bay Area PostgreSQL Meetup | July 2019 | San Francisco Visualizing patterns & relations by geographic properties is a powerful thing.
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47. SF Bay Area PostgreSQL Meetup | July 2019 | San Francisco SF Bay Area PostgreSQL Meetup | July 2019 | San Francisco Everything is related to everything else, but near things are more related than distant things.” —Waldo Tobler, American-Swiss geographer & cartographer “
48. SF Bay Area PostgreSQL Meetup | July 2019 | San Francisco And now……….. #1 reason
49. SF Bay Area PostgreSQL Meetup | July 2019 | San Francisco 1 Extension APIs @clairegiordano
50. SF Bay Area PostgreSQL Meetup | July 2019 | San Francisco SF Bay Area PostgreSQL Meetup | July 2019 | San Francisco We are still dining out on the radical design decision by Michael Stonebraker in the Design of Postgres—to have run-time extensions.” —Paul Ramsey, Lisbon, PGConfEU 2018 “
51. SF Bay Area PostgreSQL Meetup | July 2019 | San Francisco Michael Stonebraker Source: Wikipedia
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54. SF Bay Area PostgreSQL Meetup | July 2019 | San Francisco SF Bay Area PostgreSQL Meetup | July 2019 | San Francisco 54 Not everyone has to agree, up-front
55. SF Bay Area PostgreSQL Meetup | July 2019 | San Francisco SF Bay Area PostgreSQL Meetup | July 2019 | San Francisco PostGIS Citus postgresql-HLL pg_partman pg_cron postgresql-topn postgresql-unit pguri postgis.net/ citusdata/citus citusdata/postgresql-hll pgpartman/pg_partman petere/pguri citusdata/pg_cron ChristophBerg/postgresql-unit citusdata/postgresql-topn
56. SF Bay Area PostgreSQL Meetup | July 2019 | San Francisco SF Bay Area PostgreSQL Meetup | July 2019 | San Francisco PostGIS Citus postgresql-HLL pg_partman pg_cron postgresql-topn postgresql-unit pguri postgis.net/ citusdata/citus citusdata/postgresql-hll pgpartman/pg_partman petere/pguri citusdata/pg_cron ChristophBerg/postgresql-unit citusdata/postgresql-topn AND SO MANY MORE POSTGRES EXTENSIONS AND MORE THAT WE HAVEN’T YET IMAGINED
57. SF Bay Area PostgreSQL Meetup | July 2019 | San Francisco It’s deeply satisfying to work on a technology (PostgreSQL!) that not only delights developers, but makes their lives light years better.” “ —Claire Giordano, Nordic PGDay 2019 @clairegiordano
58. SF Bay Area PostgreSQL Meetup | July 2019 | San Francisco Matt Asay Lætitia Avrot Dave Cramer Herb Cunitz Nils Dijk Peter Eisentraut Vik Fearing Dimitri Fontaine Stephen Frost Önder Kalaci Amit Kapila Günce Kaya Craig Kerstiens Paul Ramsey Marco Slot Sai Srirampur My Nguyen Peter van Hardenberg Tom Lane Jonathan Katz PGConfEU audience Isaac Alves Danese Cooper Devrim Gündüz Thank You!
59. SF Bay Area PostgreSQL Meetup | July 2019 | San Francisco Thank @ clairegiordano @ citusdata @ microsoft @ azureDBpostgres github.com/citusdata/citus you! p.s. Socks &stickers Now Part of Microsoft