The database that refused to die: How Postgres survived its own creators

Stonebraker essentially abandoned Postgres in the mid-1990s. But instead of fading into obscurity, the codebase was salvaged ...
InfoQ

QCon London 2026: Introducing Tansu.io — Rethinking Kafka for Lean Operations

At QCon London 2026, Peter Morgan introduced Tansu, an open-source, Apache Kafka-compatible messaging broker he has been building solo for the past two years. The pitch was simple and deliberately ...
Security Boulevard

How to create realistic test data for PostgreSQL

TL;DR: There are many resources available for creating synthetic data in PostgreSQL. There are also many challenges involved in doing this in-house. Tonic Fabricate and Tonic Structural make all of ...
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Databases in 2025: A Year in Review

Another year passes. I was hoping to write more articles instead of just these end-of-the-year screeds, but I almost died in the spring semester, and it sucked up my time. Nevertheless, I will go ...
InfoWorld

Using Microsoft’s Data API builder for Azure databases

Microsoft’s declarative REST and GraphQL API design tool supports MySQL and Postgres as well as Azure databases and works anywhere you can run a Docker container. Microsoft Azure is now so big it’s ...
Hacker

AWS Bedrock Knowledge Bases: Comparing S3 Vector Store vs. OpenSearch, PostgreSQL & Neptune

OpenSearch is a distributed, community-driven, Apache 2.0-licensed, 100% open-source search and analytics suite used for a broad set of use cases like real-time application monitoring, log analytics, ...
theregister

Postgres pioneer Michael Stonebraker promises to upend the database once more

INTERVIEW What if we built the operating system on top of the database instead of the other way around? It sounds like an idea from an undergraduate student after one microdose too many, except it's ...