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Why Has Figma Reinveted the Wheel with Postgres? — A closer look at Figma’s custom sharding solution with motivations and future predictions.

Building a Q&A Bot Natively with Postgres Extensions — pgvector and embedding models have made it easier to create advanced natural language search systems in the past year or two. Here, Tembo shows off how their stack and extensions make it an even easier, direct process. pg_vectorize is a particular highlight as it’s an extension that automates a lot of the process of transforming...

4: Mathesar: A Spreadsheet Database Interface — An open source (GPL) tool that offers a grid-style interface to a Postgres database of your choice with the aim being to enable developers to open up databases more directly to end users. It’s written in Python and is also on GitHub.