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**JUST USE POSTGRES**Denis is the author of the brand new book "Just Use Postgres!". Consistent with the name, it talks about how most people do NOT need a collection of specialty databases nor systems. Instead, it focuses how you can fulfil the majority of these use cases with a plain old Postgres (and a bit of extensions).Over time, PostgreSQL has grown its network effect to become the most powerful general-purpose database in the world, namely due to its rich extension support and active community.In this super fun conversation, we talk through:• what MySQL got wrong w.r.t community and why Postgres succeeded• the recent (commercial) explosion of Postgres development in the world (Supabase, Neon, Crunchy, ClickHouse)• when Postgres instead of Kafka for messaging• the significance of the meme “just use postgres”• Postgres for data analytics-----------------------------------------**TIMELINE**00:00 - intro & Denis' history04:26 - The Just Use Postgres movement08:36 - The Small Data trend and its iImplications15:49 - The timely shift from distributed systems to simplicity17:15 - Updating your priors re: PG capabilities20:28 - MySQL's OSS community split & our experiences with such things39:48 - Postgres for analytics55:49 - PG in the lake house59:27 - today's AI marketing slop01:02:19 - How you'd build a brand new app on Postgres01:05:24 - Speedrun through PG extensions 01:11:56 - PG as a Message Queue-----------------------------------------**TRANSCRIPT**Feed this into your favorite AI for summarization, or to prompt it specific questions:https://gist.github.com/stanislavkozlovski/a8a38f9557486086bae2f3b81a1ad835-----------------------------------------**BUY THE BOOK**Listeners to this show have a special discount of ~40%!Enter code "2minstrMagda" at checkout to make use of it.Use it before it expires on March 1st 2026:✅ https://www.manning.com/books/just-use-postgres-----------------------------------------**DENIS**You can find Denis on:- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dmagda/- X/Twitter: https://x.com/denismagda
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By 2minutestreaming**JUST USE POSTGRES**Denis is the author of the brand new book "Just Use Postgres!". Consistent with the name, it talks about how most people do NOT need a collection of specialty databases nor systems. Instead, it focuses how you can fulfil the majority of these use cases with a plain old Postgres (and a bit of extensions).Over time, PostgreSQL has grown its network effect to become the most powerful general-purpose database in the world, namely due to its rich extension support and active community.In this super fun conversation, we talk through:• what MySQL got wrong w.r.t community and why Postgres succeeded• the recent (commercial) explosion of Postgres development in the world (Supabase, Neon, Crunchy, ClickHouse)• when Postgres instead of Kafka for messaging• the significance of the meme “just use postgres”• Postgres for data analytics-----------------------------------------**TIMELINE**00:00 - intro & Denis' history04:26 - The Just Use Postgres movement08:36 - The Small Data trend and its iImplications15:49 - The timely shift from distributed systems to simplicity17:15 - Updating your priors re: PG capabilities20:28 - MySQL's OSS community split & our experiences with such things39:48 - Postgres for analytics55:49 - PG in the lake house59:27 - today's AI marketing slop01:02:19 - How you'd build a brand new app on Postgres01:05:24 - Speedrun through PG extensions 01:11:56 - PG as a Message Queue-----------------------------------------**TRANSCRIPT**Feed this into your favorite AI for summarization, or to prompt it specific questions:https://gist.github.com/stanislavkozlovski/a8a38f9557486086bae2f3b81a1ad835-----------------------------------------**BUY THE BOOK**Listeners to this show have a special discount of ~40%!Enter code "2minstrMagda" at checkout to make use of it.Use it before it expires on March 1st 2026:✅ https://www.manning.com/books/just-use-postgres-----------------------------------------**DENIS**You can find Denis on:- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dmagda/- X/Twitter: https://x.com/denismagda