October 2024 Citus Open Source Newsletter

📝 Supporting a New PostgreSQL Version in Your Extension - A Citus Case Study

This PGConf EU talk provides a behind-the-scenes look at the challenges of keeping Citus up-to-date with Postgres—with lessons learned & tips too.

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🎙️ How I got started as a developer (& in Postgres) with Tom Lane

Follow Tom Lane’s journey from hopes of being a pinball machine designer to becoming one of the most prolific engineering contributors to Postgres.

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📝 What’s in a Postgres major release? An analysis of contributions in the v17 timeframe

This brand new analysis—done by Postgres committer Daniel Gustafsson and Claire Giordano—covers all types of contributions to Postgres in the v17 timeframe.

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🎙️ Becoming a Postgres committer

From IT consultant to open source developer, Melanie shares her journey to Postgres—plus lots of learnings along the way.

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✍ PostgreSQL 17 Preview on Azure Postgres Flexible Server

Start testing PG17 on Azure before the transition to general availability. Find out how (and why) in this post.

Read Varun’s post ⟶

📹 How to Work with Other People

Lack of awareness around mental health issues can cause unnecessary stress, burnout, and strained relationships with colleagues and employers. Gain some insight. (Slides)

Watch Jimmy & Floor’s talk ⟶

📣 Talking Postgres EP21 – Wed Nov 13

Andrew Atkinson joins Claire to talk about helping Rails developers learn Postgres. You might find his POSETTE talk useful too.

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📹 Semantic search with Django, PostgreSQL, & pgvector

In this talk from POSETTE, find out how to add semantic search functionality to an existing Python-based web project, in particular Django, with data storage on PostgreSQL.

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📹 From Postgres full text search to Retrieval Augmented Generative search

In his POSETTE talk Adam covers designing the search document, FTS feature inner workings, the pgvector extension to Postgres, & how to leverage the azure_ai extension to Azure Database for PostgreSQL.

Watch Adam’s talk ⟶