Description
Nikolay and Michael discuss self-managing Postgres — both the practicalities of doing so, as well as some managed-service style tooling. Here are some links to some things they mentioned:
Our episode on Managed services vs. DIY https://postgres.fm/episodes/managed-services-vs-diy
WAL-G https://github.com/wal-g/wal-g
pgBackRest https://pgbackrest.org/
Barman https://github.com/EnterpriseDB/barman
Dead Man’s Snitch https://deadmanssnitch.com/
Netdata https://www.netdata.cloud/
Upgrades https://postgres.fm/episodes/upgrades
High availability https://postgres.fm/episodes/high-availability
Configuration https://postgres.fm/episodes/default-configuration
Corruption https://postgres.fm/episodes/corruption
Connection poolers https://postgres.fm/episodes/connection-poolers
Index maintenance https://postgres.fm/episodes/index-maintenance
StackGres supported extensions (Michael was wrong, it also has a timescale_tls extension!) https://stackgres.io/extensions/
postgresql_cluster https://github.com/vitabaks/postgresql_cluster
Supabase self-hosting https://supabase.com/docs/guides/self-hosting
Tembo https://github.com/tembo-io/tembo
Open source licenses, clouds, Postgres (Postgres TV discussion) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rcbyIjA4gI&t=149s
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Postgres FM is brought to you by:
Nikolay Samokhvalov, founder of Postgres.ai
Michael Christofides, founder of pgMustard
With special thanks to:
Jessie Draws for the amazing artwork
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