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uplpgsql compiles PL/pgSQL to native code. It took over twenty years to get here, but here it is. On July 19, 2005, I demoed my optimizing PL/SQL compiler to Andy Astor, Denis Luss…

Many experienced founders get rejected by YC and blame ageism. I used to think that too. After reflecting on my own experience, and talking with others, I think YC is mostly right.…

Right now, the source is available under the Confluent license, but we intend to go BSD/MIT once our fundraising is done.

If you’ve ever dealt with scaling PostgreSQL, you know the traditional process-per-connection model just doesn’t cut it when you're handling massive numbers of connections, particu…

Based on conversations with a lot of developers and businesses, a few things happened, I think. First, MySQL hasn’t been keeping pace with Postgres feature wise; second, MySQL isn’…

From an embedded perspective or where the iOS/Android app is a client?

Postgres is on the rise. MySQL is in decline. But there are a helluva lot of MySQL applications out there and developers still building against it. While the industry is moving awa…

In his test, it appears the Mongo driver is just putting the message on the wire, not actually waiting on the server reply or verifying that the command was ever actually processed…