Why Postgres?

Nikolay and Michael discuss why they chose Postgres — as users, for their businesses, for their careers, as well as some doubts.

Here are some links to things they mentioned:
• Our episode on why Postgres become popular postgres.fm/episodes/why-is-postgres-popular
• Database Systems: The Complete Book (by Hector Garcia-Molina, Jeff Ullman, and Jennifer Widom) infolab.stanford.edu/~ullman/dscb.html
• Our episode on the Postgres startup ecosystem postgres.fm/episodes/postgres-startup-ecosystem
• Will Postgres Live Forever? (talk by Bruce Momjian) youtube.com/watch?v=iYVxWpyaGpA
• "Anarcho-Syndicalist Commune" from Monty Python and the Holy Grail youtube.com/watch?v=R7qT-C-0ajI
• The Cathedral and the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary (book by Eric S. Raymond) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cathedral_and_the_Ba…

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What did you like or not like? What should we discuss next time? Let us know via a YouTube comment, on social media, (postgres.fm/people) or by commenting on our Google doc (docs.google.com/document/d/1PNGSn_d0A7gTR4C0p6…)!

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Postgres FM is produced by:
• Michael Christofides, founder of pgMustard (pgmustard.com)
• Nikolay Samokhvalov, founder of Postgres.ai (postgres.ai)

With special thanks to:
• Jessie Draws for the elephant artwork