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episode 14: Becoming expert at using PostgreSQL with Chris Ellis
You have to find what works for you and Chris Ellis has never been the kind of person that could go and sit in a library—for Chris, the most productive Postgres place is in a coffee shop. In this episode of the Path To Citus Con podcast for developers who love Postgres, Chris Ellis joined Claireand Pinoto chat about his path to becoming more (and more) expert at using PostgreSQL. Curiosity may have killed the cat but it’s taken Chris places, beginning as a 5 year old playing with QBASIC. Chris shared his journey to becoming a developer, an electronic engineer, a builder, and a PostgreSQL user. This session also delves into Chris’s work as a Postgres conference speaker (and organizer!) Importantly, we spent time remembering Simon Riggs, Postgres leader extraordinaire. RIP.
Links mentioned in this episode:
Chris's first thread on the PostgreSQL mailing lists
Slides: IoT with PostgreSQL— by Chris Ellis at PGConf.EU 2023
Slides: Advantage PostgreSQL— by Chris Ellis at Nordic PGDay 2024
Video: Should I use JSON in PostgreSQL?—by Boriss Mejías at PGConf.EU 2023
Slides: Fighting the Butterflies & giving your first Postgres conference talk—by Claire Giordano at pgDay Paris 2024
Markus Winand's website, Modern SQL
Wikipedia: Linus’s law
Andres Freund’s xz backdoor discovery
Andres Freund’s Mastodon Toot about xz backdoor
Podcast: Path to Citus Con Ep08: How I got started as a developer (& in Postgres) with Andres Freund & Heikki Linnakangas
Podcast: Path To Citus Con Ep11: My Journey into Performance Benchmarking with Jelte Fennema-Nio & Marco Slot
Podcast: Oxide and Friends next episode on Mon Apr 08 2024, featuring Andres Freund from Microsoft
Jessie Frazelle tweet on LLM
Video of pgDay Paris 2024 lightning talks, including Chris's "Electric Elephants" talk
Post about Simon Riggs's tragic passing last week. He will be missed, he is missed, and many are heartbroken
Simon Riggs: The Next 20 Years—keynote at PGConf.EU 2023
Book: The Art of PostgreSQL by Dimitri Fontaine
Podcast: Path To Citus Con Ep09: Solving every data problem in SQL w/Dimitri Fontaine & Vik Fearing
Blog: Planet PostgreSQL
Blog: Contributing to Postgres 101: A Beginner's Experience by Elizabeth Christensen
Book: Linux Kernel Development by Robert Love
Chris Ellis’s LED PCB Art
Blog: pgDay Paris – Postgres Community, cheese and wine by Boriss Mejías
Podcast: LUG Radio
CFP for POSETTE: An Event for Postgres (free & virtual event) open until Sunday April 7th 2024 at 11:59pm PDT
Cal invite for next Ep15 of Path To Citus Con podcast with Michael Christofides