How I got started as a developer with Andres Freund & Heikki Linnakangas | Talking Postgres Ep08
Lots of stories of how folks got started as developers! On this episode of the Talking Postgres podcast (formerly called Path To Citus Con*), Andres Freund and Heikki Linnakangas join Claire Giordano and Pino de Candia to explore their journeys getting started with Postgres. How do you do development: with a cup of coffee, with music in the background, maybe at 3am? How do you approach mentoring other developers? Why did you stick with Postgres and make it a career? Lots of lively discussion about building not only code, but relationships in the community, in the open. Also, stories about Heikki’s and Andres’s first Postgres patch submissions, and working via the hackers mailing list. Finally, what advice would you give to your younger self starting in the development world?
*[Update: July 2024] Path To Citus Con has been renamed to Talking Postgres. All of the past podcast episodes from Path To Citus Con—now called Talking Postgres with Claire Giordano—can be found here: https://talkingpostgres.com and on this YouTube playlist: https://aka.ms/TalkingPostgres-playlist.
Guests Andres Freund and Heikki Linnakangas:
Andres is a PostgreSQL committer and developer, focusing on replication, scalability, efficiency and robustness. At Microsoft he works full time on upstream PostgreSQL. Before that he worked EDB, Citus Data, 2ndQuadrant and as a freelancing consultant in the areas of databases and software engineering. In his free time he enjoys climbing, woodworking and reading paper books.
Heikki is a PostgreSQL committer, and now co-founder of Neon. Heikki has worked on many different parts of the codebase, including storage, executor and indexing.
Chapters:
⏩ 00:00 Starting off as developers
⏩ 12:47 Getting started with Postgres!
⏩ 16:42 Projects Andres & Heikki have worked on
⏩ 21:20 The (surprising) first patch process
⏩ 26:10 Sticking with Postgres
⏩ 36:01 How do you program? Getting in the zone.
⏩ 41:17 What does it mean to be a Postgres hacker?
⏩ 45:13 Mentoring other contributors
⏩ 55:39 What is the Postgres core team?
⏩ 1:06:56 Advice to your younger self?
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Links mentioned in this episode, in the order they were covered:
🔹Neon: https://neon.tech/
🔹Path To Citus Con Ep04: https://talkingpostgres.com/episodes/...
🔹Andres’s first patch to Postgres: https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=...
🔹PGConf NYC 2023: https://2023.pgconf.nyc/
🔹Flow book: https://www.google.com/books/edition/...
🔹Archives of Postgres hackers mailing list: https://www.postgresql.org/list/pgsql...
🔹List of Postgres Contributors: https://www.postgresql.org/community/...
🔹Description of Postgres Core Team: https://www.postgresql.org/developer/...
🔹Postgres Weekly newsletter: https://postgresweekly.com/
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