At PGConf.Dev 2025, Bohan Zhang from OpenAI shared a session titled Scaling Postgres to the next level at OpenAI, giving us a peek into the database usage of a top-tier unicorn.

If you ask me, we’re on the brink of a cosmic collision in database-land, and Postgres + DuckDB is the meteor we should all be watching.

Why would we need yet another package manager for PostgreSQL & extensions?

Supabase is great, own your own Supabase is even better. A tutorial for self-hosting production-grade supabase on local/cloud VM/BMs.

PostgreSQL Is Eating the Database World through the power of extensibility. With 390 extensions powering PG, we may not say it’s invincible, but it’s definitely getting much closer.

Dify is an open-source LLM app development platform. This article explains how to self-host Dify using Pigsty.

Experience & Feeling on the PGCon.Dev 2024

PostgreSQL isn’t just a simple relational database; it’s a data management framework with the potential to engulf the entire database realm.

S3 is no longer “cheap” with the evolution of hardware, and other challengers such as cloudflare R2.

Whether databases should be housed in Kubernetes/Docker remains highly controversial. It has fundamental drawbacks with stateful services.

No rules, no standards. Some developer conventions for PostgreSQL 16.

Hardware is interesting again, developments in CPUs and SSDs remain largely unnoticed by the majority of devs. A whole generation of developers is obscured by cloud hype and marketing noise.