Andrew Atkinson: PGConf NYC 2023 Recap 🐘

Just got back from the whirlwind 🌪️ of PGConf NYC 2023 in Midtown Manhattan.🗽 After presenting at the 2021 edition), my first ever PostgreSQL conference, I was excited to return because of the great experience I had the first time. This time around, I’m happy to report that my experience was the same or even better! It was a great week of learning, networking, and sharing. There is something very energizing about getting so many different PostgreSQL people together in a shared space, that’s hard to replicate online. Choosing sessions was difficult since there were 3 tracks to choose from, and I could only be in one place at a time. The PostgreSQL ecosystem is broad. I wanted to highlight some of the backgrounds of attendees and companies at the conference. Outline Recap of sessions I attended Networking with big companies using PostgreSQL Networking with PostgreSQL users and backend engineers Developer Advocates and Community Builders like Ryan Booz, Joe Brockmeier Networking with PostgreSQL committers and major contributors Startups, Sponsors, and Vendors Lightning Talks View from the 27th Floor Terrace at Club Quarters, Midtown Sessions I attended As a multi-track conference, many slots had multiple sessions I wanted to attend. Here’s a quick list of what I attended. Each session is linked on the site, and presenters may have added slides or contact information if you’d like to learn more. Keynote by Dr. Andy Pavlo, CEO Ottertune Instacart engineering: Postgres Personalization by Ankit M., Jon P. pgbench with Melanie Plageman Query planning with Hamid Quddus Akhtar LOOKING IT UP: POSTGRESQL INDEXES with Christophe Pettus Table Partitioning with Chelsea Dole THINK LIKE A POSTGRES! with Robert Treat Supporting GenAI workloads in PostgreSQL with AWS by SHAYON SANYAL: pgvector, IVFFlat, HNSW Blue Green Deployments with AWS Aurora Incremental Materi[...]