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.
Appears in 14 Episodes
Becoming expert at using PostgreSQL with Chris Ellis
You have to find what works for you and Chris Ellis has never been the kind of person that could go and sit in a library—for Chris, the most productive Postgres place ...
Spinning up on Postgres & AI with Arda Aytekin
Everywhere you look, people are talking about AI. From Copilot to ChatGPT to Postgres’s powerful AI capabilities (think: pgvector), AI is everywhere. In this episode o...
From developer to PostgreSQL specialist with Derk van Veen
The best days are when things don’t go as planned. Derk van Veen joined Claire Giordano and Pino de Candia on this episode of Path To Citus Con* podcast for developers...
My Journey into Performance Benchmarking with Jelte Fennema-Nio & Marco Slot
No one likes benchmarking. But it can be one of the highest impact things you do. Jelte Fennema-Nio and Marco Slot joined Claire Giordano and Pino de Candia on this ep...
My Journey into Postgres Monitoring with Lukas Fittl & Rob Treat
Do you monitor your Postgres error logs for gold? Lukas Fittl and Rob Treat join Claire Giordano and Pino de Candia on the Path To Citus Con* podcast for developers wh...
Solving every data problem in SQL w/Dimitri Fontaine & Vik Fearing
Is being lazy a good reason to learn SQL? Dimitri Fontaine and Vik Fearing join Claire Giordano and Pino de Candia on the Path To Citus Con* podcast for developers who...
How I got started as a developer (& in Postgres) with Andres Freund & Heikki Linnakangas
Lots of stories of how folks got started as developers! Andres Freund and Heikki Linnakangas join Claire Giordano and Pino de Candia to explore more paths for getting ...
Why people care about PostGIS and Postgres with Paul Ramsey & Regina Obe
The geospatial world of Postgres is so much more than mapping. Paul Ramsey and Regina Obe join Claire Giordano and Pino de Candia to explore the "where" on Path To Cit...
You're probably already using Postgres: What you need to know with Chelsea Dole & Floor Drees
Drop the fear, not the tables. Chelsea Dole and Floor Drees join Claire Giordano and Pino de Candia to explore the app developer perspective on Path To Citus Con*, the...
My favorite ways to learn more about PostgreSQL with Grant Fritchey & Ryan Booz
Everyone learns differently. Grant Fritchey and Ryan Booz, database advocates at Redgate focusing on PostgreSQL, talk with Path To Citus Con* co-hosts Claire Giordano ...
How I got started as a dev and in Postgres with Melanie Plageman & Thomas Munro
In this episode of Path To Citus Con*, Melanie Plageman, a PostgreSQL hacker working at Microsoft, and Thomas Munro, PostgreSQL developer and committer also at Microso...
Why give talks at Postgres conferences with Álvaro Herrera & Boriss Mejías
Álvaro 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...
How to get Postgres ready for the next 100 million users
Join Claire and Pino as they talk with Citus and Postgres open source team members to explore how to get Postgres ready for the next 100 million users. What will futur...
Working in public on open source with Simon Willison & Marco Slot
Simon Willison is the creator of Datasette and co-creator of Django. Marco Slot is the lead architect for the Citus database extension to Postgres. In this episode of ...
