May 2024 Citus Open Source Newsletter

🗓 POSETTE is almost here!

POSETTE: An Event for Postgres starts Tue Jun 11th. 4 keynotes, 38 talks, 44 speakers, 7 hosts across 4 livestreams. Come join us!

Check out the schedule ⟶

✍ PgBouncer Connection Pooler for Postgres Now Supports More Session Vars

PgBouncer 1.20.0 supports two of the most requested session variables & laid groundwork to be able to support all session variables in the future.

Read Emel’s post ⟶

✍ What’s new with Postgres at Microsoft, 2024 edition

This completely refreshed post gives a bird’s eye view of all the Postgres work happening at Microsoft—with highlights for each of the workstreams from the last 8 months.

Read Claire’s post ⟶

📣 Keynote speakers for POSETTE

Each of 4 livestreams has a unique keynote speaker with quite different perspectives. Hear from Charles Feddersen, Regina Obe, Sarah Novotny, & Thomas Munro.

See all the POSETTE speakers ⟶

🎙️ Podcast about becoming expert at using PostgreSQL with Chris Ellis

In this episode of Path To Citus Con, Chris Ellis joined Claire & Pino to chat about his path to becoming a Postgres expert.

Listen in ⟶

✍ About Talk Selection for POSETTE: An Event for Postgres 2024

Gain some Insight into the talk selection process used in the CFP for POSETTE: An Event for Postgres. Surprise hockey stick? Not.

Read Claire’s post ⟶

📣 Proud to sponsor PGConf NYC 2024

Microsoft is so pleased to be a Platinum sponsor of PGConf NYC again this year! Growing every year, PGConf NYC is not to be missed.

Early bird tix until Jun 30 ⟶

🎙️ My Journey to Explaining Explain with Michael Christofides

Michael & Claire chat about his origin story as a mathematician & his first experience with Postgres. Then Michael walks through co-founding a Postgres company & now co-hosting a podcast.

Take a listen ⟶

🎙️ Path To Citus Con EP16 – Wed Jun 19

Teresa & Aaron from the POSETTE organizing team will join Claire to talk about the making of POSETTE: An Event for Postgres, now in year 3.

Mark your calendar ⟶

✍ ICYMI: Introducing in-database embedding generation for Azure Database for PostgreSQL

Text embedding generation without the wait! Consistent, sub 10 millisecond latency when generating text embeddings within Azure Database for PostgreSQL.

Read Josh’s post ⟶