Podcast Episode Details

Gadget's use of Postgres

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Episode 159

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Nik and Michael are joined by Harry Brundage from Gadget to talk about their recent zero-downtime major version upgrade, how they use Postgres more generally, their dream database, and some challenges of providing Postgres as an abstracted service at scale.
 
Here are some links to things they mentioned:

• Harry Brundage https://postgres.fm/people/harry-brundage
• Gadget https://gadget.dev
• Zero downtime Postgres upgrades using logical replication (blog post) https://gadget.dev/blog/zero-downtime-postgres-upgrades-using-logical-replication
• HOT updates https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/storage-hot.html
• PgDog https://pgdog.dev
• Multigres https://multigres.com
• Neki https://www.neki.dev
• Running 10 Million PostgreSQL Indexes In Production (Heap blog post) https://www.heap.io/blog/running-10-million-postgresql-indexes-in-production
• pgwatch2 (Postgres.ai Edition) https://gitlab.com/postgres-ai/pgwatch2
• Advanced query insights on AlloyDB https://cloud.google.com/alloydb/docs/advanced-query-insights-overview
• OrioleDB https://www.orioledb.com
• Not discussed but relevant: Gadget have also now published a blog post about their sharding! https://gadget.dev/blog/sharding-our-core-postgres-database-without-any-downtime

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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 credit to:

• Jessie Draws for the elephant artwork

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Published on 9 hours ago