Why give talks at Postgres conferences with Álvaro Herrera & Boriss Mejías
Download MP3Álvaro Herrera, and Boriss Mejías, both longtime members of the Postgres developer community, explore the value of giving conference talks—as well as the work involved, the time it takes, and the many different types of conference talks, including presentations about about failure and things that have gone wrong.
In this episode of Path To Citus Con*, Claire and Pino guide the conversation on questions like: Should you add humor to your talks? How does your personality—introvert or extrovert—affect your conference presentations? Is it OK to give the same conference talk at different events?
*[Update: July 2024] Path To Citus Con has been renamed to Talking Postgres. All of the past podcast episodes from Path To Citus Con—now called Talking Postgres with Claire Giordano—can be found here: https://talkingpostgres.com
Some of the links mentioned in the order they appeared:
- Postgres Storytelling: Support in the Darkest Hour: Boriss’ Citus Con talk
- A Curious Moon book by Rob Conery
- Tomas Vondra's talks on YouTube
- pgDay Paris 2022
- FOSDEM PostgreSQL devroom
- FOSDEM PGDAY 2023
- Nordic PGDay 2022
- PGConf.EU 2022
- LFMF: How a CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY led to a 6 hour downtime by Gunnar "Nick" Bluth
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.
Host
Pino de Candia
Pino de Candia is a software dev manager at Microsoft since 2020 and is currently working on the Citus open source project. Pino previously worked on the managed PostgreSQL database service in Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL, which includes Citus on Azure support for distributed PostgreSQL. Pino has lived in New Orleans since 2017.
Producer
Aaron Wislang
Open Source Engineering + Developer Relations at Microsoft + Azure ☁️ | Go (golang), Cloud Native, Linux 🐧 🐍 🦀 ☕ 🍷📷 🎹 | Toronto 🇨🇦🌎 | 💨😷💉 | https://aaronw.dev/hello/
Guest
Boriss Mejías
Holistic system software engineer, PostgreSQL fan, air guitar player and headbanger. Chilean in Belgium.
Producer
Carol Smith
Senior Program Manager at Microsoft. Previously at GitHub and Google. Horseback rider, cook, and armchair movie critic.
