Postgres for the modern enterprise
summary
Postgres traces to 1986 and its extendable core lets teams add new data types and indexing methods without rewriting the engine, so features like JSON, full-text search and GIS plug in as extensions. The project is open source with commercial vendors (EDB contributing ≈20% of commits) supplying backups, monitoring and multi-region deployments, and cloud vendors including Oracle now offer managed Postgres. Enterprise features include zero-downtime upgrades and online maintenance.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Introduction and speaker background
- 1:34Why use Postgres today
- 2:39Postgres history and origins
- 4:23Postgres extendability advantage
- 7:40Postgres growth and adoption
- 9:26Open source community impact
- 11:13Commercial ecosystem around Postgres
- 13:41Postgres licensing and cloud support
- 15:12Postgres cloud architecture benefits
- 16:13Simplifying the data stack with Postgres
- 16:56EDB services and community event
