Nikolay and Michael discuss why they chose Postgres — as users, for their businesses, for their careers, as well as some doubts.
 
Here are some links to things they mentioned:

• Our episode on why Postgres become popular https://postgres.fm/episodes/why-is-postgres-popular
• Database Systems: The Complete Book (by Hector Garcia-Molina, Jeff Ullman, and Jennifer Widom) http://infolab.stanford.edu/~ullman/dscb.html
• Our episode on the Postgres startup ecosystem https://postgres.fm/episodes/postgres-startup-ecosystem
• Will Postgres Live Forever? (talk by Bruce Momjian) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYVxWpyaGpA 
• "Anarcho-Syndicalist Commune" from Monty Python and the Holy Grail https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7qT-C-0ajI
• The Cathedral and the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary (book by Eric S. Raymond) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cathedral_and_the_Bazaar 

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What did you like or not like? What should we discuss next time? Let us know via a YouTube comment, on social media, or by commenting on our Google doc!

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Postgres FM is produced by:

• Michael Christofides, founder of pgMustard
• Nikolay Samokhvalov, founder of Postgres.ai

With special thanks to:

• Jessie Draws for the elephant artwork