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Global Indexes, A Reversed Commit, And A Dead Extension Model: How Postgres Features Actually Reach Users

Side-Stepping The Data Movement Tax: How Fragmented Data Stacks Are Converging Back Onto Postgres

Agent Workloads Are Just Beginning To Expose What Row-Level Security Really Costs

Repack Took a Decade To Graduate Into Postgres Core. The Features Still Waiting Could Take Longer.

OWASP Checked Its AI Risk Rankings Against 6,600 Real Incidents And The Surprises Are All Below The Model

Postgres' Logical Replication Stream Gets A Second Life As A Cache Invalidation Engine

'There Is No Boss': How Postgres Decides Its Future In Public

Everyone Is Handing AI Agents The Keys To Production Postgres. POSETTE’s Sharpest Talks Were About The Brakes.

The Best Lesson From POSETTE’s Vendor Day: When Your Postgres Feels Slow, It's Rarely Postgres

What A Morning With Postgres’ Maintainers Reveals About How The Database Really Gets Made

POSETTE '26: Postgres Has Stopped Trying To Prove It Belongs And Started Absorbing The Stack Around It

How Postgres' Rise To Enterprise Default Is Outpacing The Operational Model Behind It

What Happens To Agent Memory When You Swap The Model? Two Practitioners Are Building The Answer In The Database Layer.

The Line Between The Database And AI Memory Layer Is Getting Blurry. The Trick Is Making Sure Your Schemas Are Not Paying For It.

To Stop AI Amplifying Security Issues, Some Experts Are Grounding Security In Hardware

How a Laid-Off Atlassian Engineer's Sovereign Breakdown Started a Timer On Every Vibe-Coded Codebase

Authorization Has Always Been Hard, and a New Generation of Builders Is Discovering Why

What Does a Compiler Look Like When Its Audience Isn't Human? Vercel's Zero Just Soft-Launched the Answer

After pgBackRest's Close Call, Postgres Shops Are Drafting New Runbooks For Continuity

pgBackRest Is Back, But Open Source Has a Stewardship Problem It Can't Keep Ignoring

AI-Generated Pull Requests Are Crashing Postgres Instances Daily, And the Only Way Through Is Architectural

Decoding 'Architecture As An Algorithm' and Production AI Explainability In Regulated Industries

The Case Of 'A Billion APIs': Overcoming AI-Induced Monolithic Tech Debt No One Can Maintain

Tell One AI Model Another Will Review Its Work, and Output Quality Jumps 1.5x

Old-School Speccing Makes a Comeback As Devs Find The Limits of Natural Language LLM Interactions

How Mississippi Built The Nation's First Statewide AI Initiative For Education And Workforce Readiness

From Banking to Blackboard: An Engineer's Case For CI/CD-Level Governance Of AI Code

Why The Success Of AI In Regulated Industries Depends On Compliance-As-Architecture

AI Parallelized Biomedical Research, But The Verification Layer Needs To Match The Throughput

Grainger's MarTech Lead On How Disciplined AI Governance Prevents Expensive Shelfware

You Can't 'Write Off' AI QA Tax at the Read/Write Layer, You Can Only Move When The Bill Comes Due

What Happens When Read-Only Access is the Only AI Guardrail That Actually Holds?

When AI Agents Go 'God Mode,' the Security Perimeter Must Move to the Database

One Layer Away, Always: A Framework for AI in Production Data Systems

You Can't Vibe Code A Payments Platform, But Even Regulated Industries Are Rethinking Writing By Hand

AI Readiness Starts With the Queries Nobody Bothered to Optimize

Agents Collapsed The Wall Between Analytics And Operations, And Postgres Is What's On The Other Side

A Financial Service Engineer's Search For Provability Amid The MCPification Of Everything

You Can't Outrun Governance, but Reducing Hurdles to Production-Readiness Starts With Condensing AI Pipelines

Let The Agents Cook. But First, Secure The Infrastructure.

The Traditional OLTP Playbook Breaks RAG. Here's What Replaces It.

Same IDE, Two Developers: One Shipped A Month Of Front-End In An Afternoon. The Other Wiped The Drive.

Six Agents, One Pull Request, and the Emerging Art of 'Skills-as-Infrastructure'

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Side-Stepping The Data Movement Tax: How Fragmented Data Stacks Are Converging Back Onto Postgres

Every additional data store means another pipeline, another sync job, and another version of the truth. That overhead was tolerable until AI needed fresh data.

July 12, 2026

Repack Took a Decade To Graduate Into Postgres Core. The Features Still Waiting Could Take Longer.

Two practitioners on what PG19's biggest graduation means for operators, why high availability is still Postgres' most painful gap, and what the reviewer pipeline tells us about PG20.

July 12, 2026

Postgres' Logical Replication Stream Gets A Second Life As A Cache Invalidation Engine

Two co-founders building a Postgres caching proxy discovered that logical replication is a better invalidation mechanism than anything the caching ecosystem has come up with on its own. The hard part was teaching the system to understand SQL.

July 12, 2026

'There Is No Boss': How Postgres Decides Its Future In Public

At POSETTE 2026, four Postgres committers from rival companies sat on one livestream and argued the database’s future in public, a window into why a thirty-year-old project with no owner keeps out-shipping the clouds that wrap it.

June 23, 2026

Everyone Is Handing AI Agents The Keys To Production Postgres. POSETTE’s Sharpest Talks Were About The Brakes.

AI agents are getting write access to production databases, and the sharpest talks at POSETTE 2026 argued the only safety that holds is enforced in the data layer. It's the same discipline Supabase CEO Paul Copplestone was teaching the conference back in 2024.

June 23, 2026

The Best Lesson From POSETTE’s Vendor Day: When Your Postgres Feels Slow, It's Rarely Postgres

POSETTE 2026’s final day belonged to the cloud vendors, but the most useful advice came from the practitioners without a booth: a slow Postgres is almost always a storage, version, or maintenance problem, not a Postgres problem.

June 23, 2026

What A Morning With Postgres’ Maintainers Reveals About How The Database Really Gets Made

On POSETTE 2026’s second morning, the committers and contributors who build Postgres traded the product pitch for a candid look at how a thirty-year-old database actually gets made, and an invitation to help make it.

June 19, 2026

POSETTE '26: Postgres Has Stopped Trying To Prove It Belongs And Started Absorbing The Stack Around It

Graph queries, document storage, task queues, constraint enforcement. The talks at POSETTE's opening day kept pointing at the same conclusion: you probably don't need the other system.

June 19, 2026

How Postgres' Rise To Enterprise Default Is Outpacing The Operational Model Behind It

Christophe Pettus, CEO of PGX, on how Postgres became the nerve center for systems far larger than itself, and why the next wave of production failures will be failures of operating it.

June 18, 2026

What Happens To Agent Memory When You Swap The Model? Two Practitioners Are Building The Answer In The Database Layer.

A startup founder running three databases for a single agent and a Snap engineer burning 5 billion tokens a day on an AI RPG are converging on the same conclusion: the database layer is the only part of the stack that survives a model swap.

June 18, 2026

After pgBackRest's Close Call, Postgres Shops Are Drafting New Runbooks For Continuity

A DevOps engineer running production on pgBackRest, a senior DBA at the European Patent Office, a database lead at one of Europe's largest payments platforms, and a PostgreSQL contributor who maintains the most-likely-next-tool weigh in on what changes after the pgBackRest scare.

June 18, 2026

The Line Between The Database And AI Memory Layer Is Getting Blurry. The Trick Is Making Sure Your Schemas Are Not Paying For It.

Are teams putting data in the wrong layer when it comes to AI? We spoke with KPMG's Head of AI and enterprise data engineers about what proper data and memory management looks like in practice.

June 18, 2026

pgBackRest Is Back, But Open Source Has a Stewardship Problem It Can't Keep Ignoring

A look into what nearly broke when Postgres' most trusted backup tool went dark for a week, and why the rescue is its own kind of fragile.

June 18, 2026

AI-Generated Pull Requests Are Crashing Postgres Instances Daily, And the Only Way Through Is Architectural

Amanbolat Balabekov, Staff Engineer at Wolt, on why the bottleneck behind most AI initiatives isn't writing the code, it's the architectural balancing act between shipping features at lightspeed and keeping the infrastructure alive.

June 18, 2026

You Can't 'Write Off' AI QA Tax at the Read/Write Layer, You Can Only Move When The Bill Comes Due

Palanivel Rajan Mylsamy, Director of Engineering Program Management at Cisco, on why the QA tax on AI-generated code can't be written off, only paid earlier in the pipeline before it comes due at the database.

June 18, 2026

Agents Collapsed The Wall Between Analytics And Operations, And Postgres Is What's On The Other Side

Shubham Haranale, DevOps and MLOps engineer at Turing, on how AI agents are driving a convergence of transactional, analytical, and ML workloads on Postgres.

June 18, 2026

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