Becoming expert at using PostgreSQL with Chris Ellis | Path To Citus Con Ep14
You have to find what works for you and Chris Ellis has never been the kind of person that could go and sit in a library—for Chris, the most productive Postgres place is in a coffee shop. In this episode of the Path To Citus Con* podcast for developers who love Postgres, Chris Ellis joined Claire and Pino to chat about his path to becoming more (and more) expert at using PostgreSQL. Curiosity may have killed the cat but it’s taken Chris places, beginning as a 5 year old playing with QBASIC. Chris shared his journey to becoming a developer, an electronic engineer, a builder, and a PostgreSQL user. This session also delves into Chris’s work as a Postgres conference speaker (and organizer!) Importantly, we spent time remembering Simon Riggs, Postgres leader extraordinaire. RIP.
*[Update: July 2024] Path To Citus Con has been renamed to Talking Postgres.
Chapters:
⏩ 2:50 Chris’s very early origin story
⏩ 9:56 First Postgres mailing list email
⏩ 19:23 Making a dull talk even duller
⏩ 24:59 Nordic PGDay 2024
⏩ 28:24 18 years of open source
⏩ 42:32 Electric Elephants
⏩ 1:00:39 Fave Postgres resources
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Links mentioned in this episode:
🔹Chris's first thread on the PostgreSQL mailing list: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id...
🔹Video: Should I use JSON in PostgreSQL?—by Boriss Mejias at PGConf.EU 2023: • Boriss Mejias: Should I use JSON in P...
🔹Slides: IoT with PostgreSQL—by Chris Ellis at PGConf.EU 2023: https://www.postgresql.eu/events/pgco...
🔹Slides: Advantage PostgreSQL—by Chris Ellis at Nordic PGDay 2024: https://www.postgresql.eu/events/nord...
🔹Video: Should I use JSON in PostgreSQL?—by Boriss Mejías at PGConf.EU 2023: • Boriss Mejias: Should I use JSON in P...
🔹Slides: Fighting the Butterflies & giving your first Postgres conference talk—by Claire Giordano at pgDay Paris 2024: https://speakerdeck.com/clairegiordan...
🔹Markus Winand's website, Modern SQL: https://modern-sql.com/
🔹Wikipedia: Linus’s law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus's...
🔹Andres Freund's xz backdoor discovery: https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-se...
🔹Andres Freund’s Mastodon Toot about xz backdoor: https://mastodon.social/@AndresFreund...
🔹Podcast: Path to Citus Con Ep08: How I got started as a developer (& in Postgres) with Andres Freund & Heikki Linnakangas: https://talkingpostgres.com/episodes/...
🔹Podcast: Path To Citus Con Ep11: My Journey into Performance Benchmarking with Jelte Fennema-Nio & Marco Slot: https://talkingpostgres.com/episodes/...
🔹Podcast: Oxide and Friends next episode featuring Andres Freund: https://mastodon.social/@bcantrill/11...
🔹Jessie Frazelle tweet on LLM: / 1775552060102209778
🔹Video: Lightning talks from pgDay Paris 2024, including Chris's "Electric Elephants" talk: • Lightning talks
🔹Post about Simon Riggs's tragic passing last week. He will be missed, he is missed, and so many are heartbroken: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/sam-ho...
🔹Simon Riggs: The Next 20 Years—PGConf.EU 2023: • [Keynote] Simon Riggs: The Next 20 Ye...
🔹Book: The Art of PostgreSQL by Dimitri Fontaine: https://theartofpostgresql.com/
🔹Podcast: Path To Citus Con Ep09: Solving every data problem in SQL w/Dimitri Fontaine & Vik Fearing: https://talkingpostgres.com/episodes/...
🔹Planet PostgreSQL: https://planet.postgresql.org/
🔹Blog: Contributing to Postgres 101: A Beginner's Experience by Elizabeth Christensen: https://www.crunchydata.com/blog/cont...
🔹Book: Linux Kernel Development by Robert Love: https://rlove.org/
🔹Chris Ellis’ LED PCB Art: https://intrbiz.com/electronics/led-p...
🔹Blog: PgDay Paris–Postgres Community, cheese and wine by Boriss Mejías: https://dev.to/bmejias/pgday-paris-po...
🔹Podcast: LUG Radio: http://www.lugradio.org/
🔹CFP for POSETTE: An Event for Postgres open until April 7th 2024: https://aka.ms/posette-cfp-2024