Carol Smith: Say hello to Path To Citus Con, a podcast for developers who love Postgres

Introducing Path To Citus Con, a podcast for developers who love Postgres. Why? Because sometimes, something you build gets bigger than you thought it would. The monthly podcast Path To Citus Con as originally meant to be a “pre-event” to build excitement and give a hands-on experience for people who would be attending Citus Con: An Event for Postgres. The audience would get a chance to talk to speakers for the conference and hear a deep dive conversation. It’s now its own monthly podcast with guests from around the world. Guests have been deep in the world of databases and the Citus database extension to Postgres, and also people in the Postgres community and technology more generally. It’s the human side of open source, PostgreSQL, and the many PG extensions (including Citus.) In this blog post, you’ll learn about what Path To Citus Con is, how you can participate, listen, and read each episode, and about episodes like “Working in public on open source,” “Why giving talks at Postgres conferences matters,” and more (details below.) What is Path To Citus Con? The podcast is recorded live on the Microsoft Open Source Discord, so people in the audience can interact and ask questions of the guests and the hosts and they can learn from each other, too! The recorded episodes are then made available as podcasts on all your favorite podcast platforms, so people can listen at their leisure, while they walk the dog or clean the house. The hosts are Claire Giordano and Pino de Candia. Claire Giordano is head of the Postgres and Citus open source community initiatives at Microsoft. And Pino de Candia has been a software dev manager at Microsoft since 2020 and currently works on the Citus open source project. Pino previously worked on the managed service side of things for Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL, which includes Citus on Azure support for distributed PostgreSQL. Previous episodes, all made for developers who love Postgres Working in public on open source with Marco Slot and Simon Wi[...]