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PostgreSQL on Kubernetes One can feel the change for some months, if not years, around AI… Including in the PostgreSQL community. pgvector started that some years ago. And we hear more and more about it. If there’s another area where our community is adapting is the rise of Kubernetes. Because clearly, Kubernetes won what I’d call the battle for containers. I just did a fast count of “Kubernetes talks” that took part in the last 3 PostgreSQL Europe Conferences:

Why did I started writing this tool ? pgSimload version alpha by Patrick pgSimload is a tool written in Go. The very first version was a POC written by my colleague Patrick McLaughlin. He wanted to show us (as the Solution Architects Team, at my job), that something else than Apache JMeter can be used to create a loop of SELECT 1; to check if a PostgreSQL cluster (mostly in HA) is responding or not, when we do demos.

Hi there! I’m Jean-Paul Argudo. I have some background in PostgreSQL for some time now. I’ve tried to make it short in the about section of this website. Consider the following series of posts the “longer version”. This is the very first post on this new blog! I hesitated a long time to reopen a blog, but I feel it’s now the time to do so. I’m also less and less confident on the right pre-made, commercial website to host blogs, including LinkedIn… So I’ve started my own, thanks to the wonderfull Hugo tool and some beatyfull and simple Nightfall theme.

Bruce Momjian insufflated www.PostgreSQLFr.org In the early 2000’s, the PostgreSQL Community was mostly organized on mailing-lists. The pgsql-fr-generale mailing-list had a great traffic at that time. I met then many new friends. My job at this time, in that insurance company started to bore me out a bit. I was more and more involved into the PostgreSQL community, and specially, the French one. In 2004, Nat Makarevitch, my former boss at IdealX, told me he wanted to resign from his role at Solutions Linux exhibit in Paris.

PostgreSQLFr, the NPO and 1st booth The second big step in the French PostgreSQL Community was to create a Non-Profit Organization, aka NPO. It was created during 2004~2005 winter, and announced on pgsql-fr-generale, by our 1st President, Stéphane Schildknecht. This allowed us to have “officially” a booth at Solutions Linux 2005. This was the 1st official PostgreSQL booth in France ever! “Allowed”, because only groups having a NPO could be represented here.

Public Sector Covert Ops (2006~2014) There’s a part of myself few know, is what I did for PostgreSQL to let’s say “infiltrate” the French Governement, so it is widely used by it. My main point was (and still is) “why my taxes are used to pay extra license costs, when, with Open Source software, this money could be used to have local people working for the local Governement?”. It’s just a money shift.