Why Python developers just use Postgres with Dawn Wages

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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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Why Python developers just use Postgres with Dawn Wages

Talking Postgres with Claire Giordano

1 hour

8 months ago

Why Python developers just use Postgres with Dawn Wages

When I found out that Django developer and Python Software Foundation chair Dawn Wages has a chapter in her upcoming Domain-Driven Django book called “Just Use Postgres”, I knew we had to get her on the show. In this episode of Talking Postgres with Claire Giordano, Dawn breaks down why so many Python and Django developers have such an affinity for Postgres. And we dive into the Djangonaut Space mentoring program (where contributors launch), learn why “free as in puppies” beats “free as in cake” for open source vibes, and dig into why Python is the second-best language for everything.

Links mentioned in this episode:

Project page: psycopg
Documentation: Psycopg 3 – PostgreSQL database adapter for Python
Project page: PostgreSQL open source project
Git repo: code for PostgreSQL.org website
Conference: PyCon US 2025, happening May 14-22 in Pittsburgh
Conference: PGConf.dev 2025 Schedule, happening May 13-16 in Montreal Canada
Conference: Prague PostgreSQL Developer Day 2025 (P2D2) Schedule, which took place Jan 28-29
Wikipedia page: Model-view-controller software design pattern
Book: Professional ASP.NET MVC 1.0, affectionately called “the four heads book”
Podcast episode: Working in Public with Simon Willison & Marco Slot
Blog: Simon Willison’s TILs, aka Things I’ve learned
Simon Willison’s Weblog: Here’s how I use LLMs to help me write code
Simon Willison’s Weblog: How I make annotated presentations
Survey: Python Developers Survey 2023 Results
Python Docs: What’s new in Python 3.14
Mentorship program: Djangonaut Space
Mentorship program: Media & Talks about Djangonaut Space
Podcast episode: Why mentor Postgres developers with Robert Haas
Slides: PGConf EU 2024 talk by Claire Giordano about Contributions to Postgres, including maps showing how global the Postgres project is
Video of POSETTE 2024 talk by Paolo Melchiorre: Semantic search with Django, PostgreSQL, & pgvector
Video of Citus Con 2023 talk: Maps with Django (and PostGIS), by Paolo Melchiorre
Video of Citus Con 2022 talk: Django with PostgreSQL superpowers, by Paolo Melchiorre
Conference: DjangoCon Africa 2025, happening August 11-15 in Tanzania
Calendar invite: LIVE recording of Ep26 of Talking Postgres to happen on Wed Apr 02, 2025 with guest Bruce Momjian, to talk about Open Source Leadership