Podcast Episode Details

Multigres

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Episode 150

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Nikolay and Michael are joined by Sugu Sougoumarane to discuss Multigres — a project he's joined Supabase to lead, building an adaptation of Vitess for Postgres!
 
Here are some links to things they mentioned:

• Sugu Sougoumarane https://postgres.fm/people/sugu-sougoumarane
• Supabase https://supabase.com
• Announcing Multigres https://supabase.com/blog/multigres-vitess-for-postgres
• Vitess https://github.com/vitessio/vitess
• SPQR https://github.com/pg-sharding/spqr
• Citus https://github.com/citusdata/citus
• PgDog https://github.com/pgdogdev/pgdog
• Myths and Truths about Synchronous Replication in PostgreSQL (talk by Alexander Kukushkin) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFn9qRGzTMc
• Consensus algorithms at scale (8 part series by Sugu) https://planetscale.com/blog/consensus-algorithms-at-scale-part-1
• A More Flexible Paxos (blog post by Sugu) https://www.sougou.io/a-more-flexible-paxos
• libpg_query https://github.com/pganalyze/libpg_query
• PL/Proxy https://github.com/plproxy/plproxy
• PlanetScale Postgres Benchmarking https://planetscale.com/blog/benchmarking-postgres
• MultiXact member exhaustion incidents (blog post by Cosmo Wolfe / Metronome) https://metronome.com/blog/root-cause-analysis-postgresql-multixact-member-exhaustion-incidents-may-2025

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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, or by commenting on our Google doc!

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Postgres FM is produced by:

• Michael Christofides, founder of pgMustard
• Nikolay Samokhvalov, founder of Postgres.ai

With special thanks to:

• Jessie Draws for the elephant artwork 

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Published on 2 months, 1 week ago