Postgres year in review 2022
Nikolay and Michael discuss some highlights from the Postgres ecosystem this year — including exciting startups, educational resources, sharding, and more.
Postgres FM · Nikolay Samokhvalov and Michael Christofides
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Show Notes
Here are links to a few things we mentioned:
1. Startups building momentum
- Aiven raised $210m
- Timescale raised $110m
- Hasura raised $100m
- Supabase raised $80m
- Neon raised $30m
- Hydra
- OrioleDB
2. Educational resources
- Postgres FM started 👋
- Postgres TV became more active (including topic playlists)
- Tobias Petry tips on Twitter and SQL for Devs
- Hussein Nasser YouTube channel (backend engineering)
- Postgres Weekly (newsletter)
3. Sharding progress
- Citus goes fully open source
- SPQR
- pgcat
- Sharding Postgres at Notion (blog post)
- PlanetScale (MySQL)
4. Database branching is coming
5. Postgres is everywhere
- All cloud providers
- AlloyDB announced
- Kubernetes operators (comparison blog post)
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Postgres FM is brought to you by:
- Nikolay Samokhvalov, founder of Postgres.ai
- Michael Christofides, founder of pgMustard
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