December 2024 Citus Open Source Newsletter

❄ Wishing you the happiest of holidays and a fabulous 2025. ❄ May the year be full of all things Postgres! 🐘 We'll be taking a short break at the end of December but will be back with bells in January 2025. 🔔

📣 CFP for POSETTE is open!

POSETTE: An Event for Postgres 2025 has launched and the CFP is open! Do you have a Postgres story to tell? Yes or no, don’t forget to save-the-date!

Submit to the CFP ⟶

🎙️ Leading engineering for Postgres on Azure with Affan Dar

What’s it like to lead Postgres engineering at a cloud giant like Microsoft Azure? Claire & Affan chat about Affan’s journey to leading one of the largest Postgres teams in the world.

Listen In ⟶

📹 Video: Postgres-powered AI: Running End-to-End AI platform with Postgres on Azure

Ikigai Labs’ AI platform, driven by Postgres, handles diverse data types and benefits from a robust community ecosystem too. (Slides)

Watch the talk ⟶

🎙️ Helping Rails developers learn Postgres with Andrew Atkinson

The author of High Performance PostgreSQL for Rails joins Claire to share his journey to becoming an author. Also helpful—his POSETTE 2024 talk.

Take a listen ⟶

🗓 Talking Postgres EP23 – Jan 15, 2025

Daniel Gustafsson, Postgres hacker, will join Claire to share his journey to becoming a Postgres developer.

Save the date ⟶

📹 Comparing Postgres connection pooler support for prepared statements

How a connection pooler can be useful when you are using Postgres? Which connection pooler to choose?

Watch Jelte’s talk to find out ⟶

📣 6 things you can do with azure_ai & PostgreSQL on Azure

Are you looking to spin up on how to leverage AI in Postgres in the cloud? Listen in to learn how easy it is to integrate your application with the Azure AI ecosystem.

Watch Denzil’s talk ⟶

📹 ICYMI: 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. (Slides)

Watch Naisila’s talk ⟶