KEYNOTE: Driving Postgres forward at Microsoft
summary
Microsoft reports 345 upstream commits and 64,000 lines changed to Postgres 19, plus work on query planning, async I/O, EXPLAIN I/O, and CVE fixes. Azure adds near-zero downtime scaling, SSD v2: 64 TB, 80k IOPS, 1.2 GB/s, cascading read replicas demoed, Elastic Clusters (Citus) for horizontal sharding, HorizonDB with disaggregated storage, native vector search and AI Pipelines, and a VS Code extension with Copilot—500k installs—showing live debug and clone workflows.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Music & introduction
- 0:44POSETTE journey and community growth
- 2:14Four ways Microsoft is advancing Postgres
- 2:46Open-source contributions at cloud scale
- 3:54PostgreSQL 19: advancing the core engine
- 5:38Azure Postgres performance and scaling features
- 7:51Demo: cascading read replicas in action
- 9:37Elastic clusters and horizontal scaling
- 10:55HorizonDB architecture and cloud-native design
- 13:09Demo: building AI pipelines inside Postgres
- 15:51Developer tooling and VS Code integration
- 18:22Demo: debugging queries with Copilot
- 21:03Key takeaways and future of Postgres
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