March 2025 Citus Open Source Newsletter

We'll be taking a break from the newsletter to focus on preparing for POSETTE: An Event for Postgres 2025. No April 2025 newsletter, but we will be back in May.

📹 Watch the Citus 13 release party!

Citus developers who worked on the 13.0 release got together for a show & tell all about the new release. Meet new team members too.

Watch the party! ⟶

✍ PostgreSQL: 1 trillion rows in Citus

What does PostgreSQL scales really mean. Find out what 1 trillion rows in Citus is all about in this blog post.

Read Cybertec’s post ⟶

🎙️ Why Python Developers just use Postgres with Dawn Wages

Python Software Foundation chair Dawn Wages joined Claire to talk about why Python developers “just use Postgres”.

Listen In ⟶

✍ Citus: The Misunderstood Postgres Extension

A former Citan writes where Citus works best in their experience. Spoiler alert: multi-tenant apps & real-time analytics.

Read Crunchy Data’s post ⟶

✍ Microsoft’s PostgreSQL OSS engine team reflects on 2024

In this first part of a two part blog post, learn who the Microsoft PostgreSQL OSS Engine team is, their code contributions to upstream PostgreSQL, & their journey during 2024.

Read KK’s post ⟶

📣 PGConf.dev in Montreal

Ah, Montreal in the springtime. Will you be there? Be sure to join fellow Postgres developers at PGConf.dev 2025.

🗓 Talking Postgres EP27 – May 7, 2025

Peter Farkas will join Claire to talk about how he got started with FerretDB and why they chose Postgres.

Save the date ⟶

✍ ICYMI: Citus 13 supports Postgres 17

Citus 13 includes several improvements and bug fixes, but the bit news is it has Postgres 17 support. This post gives an overview of everything you will find in Citus 13.

Read Naisila’s post ⟶