How I got started as a developer & in Postgres with Daniel Gustafsson

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Talking Postgres with Claire Giordano

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Talking Postgres is a podcast for developers who love Postgres. Guests join Claire Giordano each month to discuss the human side of PostgreSQL, databases, and open source. With amazing guests such as Boriss Mejías, Melanie Plageman, Tom Lane, Simon Willison, Robert Haas, and Andres Freund, Talking Postgres is guaranteed to get you thinking. Recorded live on Discord by the Postgres team at Microsoft, you can subscribe to our calendar to join us live on the parallel text chat (which is quite fun!): https://aka.ms/TalkingPostgres-cal

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How I got started as a developer & in Postgres with Daniel Gustafsson

Talking Postgres with Claire Giordano

1 hour 22 minutes

10 months ago

How I got started as a developer & in Postgres with Daniel Gustafsson

March 5th 2005 at 3 PM in Copenhagen. That’s the exact time and place Daniel Gustafsson’s career took an unexpected turn, pivoting from operating systems to databases. At LinuxForum that day, Daniel had planned to meet up with the FreeBSD community, but a chance session about Postgres by Bruce Momjian completely blew his mind. By the time Daniel was on the train back to Malmö, he was already compiling Postgres. In this episode of Talking Postgres with Claire Giordano, Postgres major contributor and committer Daniel Gustafsson of Microsoft walks us through how he got his start as a developer and in Postgres—starting with his earliest computing memories of a hulking steel box in his family’s living room in Sweden. Also part of Daniel’s story: guitar tuning software. And curl!

Links mentioned in this episode:

Wikipedia: ABC 80
Wikipedia: mSQL
Wikipedia: PCBoard BBS (bulletin board system) application
Conference back in 2010: CHAR(10) – Clustering, HA and Replication Conference
Wikipedia: IRIX operating system
Internet Archive Wayback Machine link: LinuxForum Conference Agenda from March 5, 2005 with Bruce Momjian’s 3:00pm talk about Postgres
Podcast: Solving every data problem in SQL with Dimitri Fontaine & Vik Fearing
Conference: Nordic PGDay 2025 to happen Mar 18th in Copenhagen
Conference: All Things Open 2025 to happen Oct 12-14 in Raleigh NC
Conference: PGConf.dev 2025 to happen May 13-16 in Montreal, Canada
CFP: POSETTE: An Event for Postgres 2025 CFP open until Feb 9 2025 (it’s a virtual event)
Slides from PGConfEU 2024 Talk: What’s in a Postgres major release? An analysis of contributions in v17 timeframe
Video of PGConf EU 2024 Talk: Analysis of contributions in the v17 timeframe, by Claire Giordano
Book recommendation: The Dragon Book, a.k.a. Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools
Book recommendation: The Purple Book (or, Wizard Book), a.k.a. Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (SICP)
Book recommendation: The Practice of Programming by Kernighan & Pike
Calendar invite: LIVE recording of Ep24 of Talking Postgres podcast to happen on Wed Feb 05, 2025 with guest Robert Haas