~postgresweekly | Bookmarks (4)

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

▶  The Path to Citus Con: A Podcast for Postgres — The Citus Con event itself is now called POSETTE but the podcast continues under the old name (for now) with monthly episodes digging deep into Postgres topics. The latest episode focuses on the latest around using Postgres in AI and ML use cases, starring Microsoft’s Arda Aytekin along with Claire Giordano and Pino de Candia.

▶  Jonathan Katz on pgvector — Postgres core team member Jonathan Katz went on the Postgres.fm podcast to talk about the increasingly popular pgvector extension, its use cases, indexing approaches, and how TOAST gets involved, along with host Michael Christofides.

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.