How I got started running a Postgres user group with Jeremy Schneider
Download MP3Intensely local user groups have been part of Jeremy Schneider's story from the start—from Linux meetups at a Michigan coffee shop to a closet server running an Oracle database nobody knew anything about. In Episode 40 of Talking Postgres, Postgres engineer and Seattle Postgres User Group co-organizer Jeremy Schneider joins Claire to share how community led him to Postgres after 15 years with Oracle—and why "it's like I was born to be here." Plus: the newly-updated Postgres Happiness Hints poster, advice for starting your own user group, and his POSETTE 2026 talk on CloudNativePG.
Previously on Talking Postgres:
- Talking Postgres Ep 38: How I went from Oracle to Postgres (with a big NoSQL detour) with Gwen Shapira
Links mentioned in this episode:
- Seattle Postgres User Group: Meetup page
- Seattle Postgres User Group: YouTube channel
- User Group Map from PGConfEU 2025 talk: 48 Postgres User Groups during PG18 timeframe
- PostgreSQL.org: Listing of local Postgres User Groups
- Postgres Meetup For All (a virtual meetup): Meetup page
- Jeremy Schneider’s Blog: Ardent Performance Computing
- Poster: Postgres Happiness Hints
- PGConf.dev 2026: Posters from Poster Session
- PGConf.dev 2026 Poster Session: Talking Postgres poster
- POSETTE: An Event for Postgres 2026: Jeremy’s POSETTE 2026 talk with Leonardo Cecchi
- POSETTE 2026: Livestream 3 schedule & talks
- Oracle docs: Oracle Database Concepts PDF
- Book: Oracle Insights: Tales of the Oak Table
Creators and Guests
Host
Claire Giordano
Head of open source community efforts for Postgres at Microsoft. Ex-Citus Data, Amazon, Sun Microsystems, and Brown University CS. Serves on PGCA board. Prolific Postgres conference speaker. Co-creator of POSETTE: An Event for Postgres. Loves sailing in Greece.
Producer
Aaron Wislang
Open Source Engineering + Developer Relations at Microsoft + Azure ☁️ | Go (golang), Cloud Native, Linux 🐧 🐍 🦀 ☕ 🍷📷 🎹 | Toronto 🇨🇦🌎 | 💨😷💉 | https://aaronw.dev/hello/
