Stanislav Kozlovski

Just Use Postgres feat. Denis Magda Denis literally just published a book called “Just Use Postgres”. In this conversation, that turned out to be super fun, we talked about: • what MySQL got wrong w.r.t community • the recent explosion of Postgres development in the world (Supabase, Neon, Crunchy, ClickHouse) • when Postgres instead of Kafka • the significance of the meme “just use postgres” • Postgres for data analytics Chapters (00:00) Intro (04:26) The Just Use Postgres Movement (08:36) The Small Data Trend and Its Implications (15:49) The Shift from Distributed Systems to Simplicity (17:15) Updating your priors re: PG capabilities (20:28) MySQL's OSS community split & our experiences with such things (39:48) Postgres for Analytics (55:49) PG in the lake house (59:27) AI Marketing Slop (01:02:19) How you'd build a brand new app on Postgres (01:05:24) Speedrun through PG extensions (01:11:56) PG as a Message Queue