The Evolution of Postgres and the Potential Impact of Aging Contributors

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This chapter discusses the history and popularity of Postgres, the aging core contributors to the project, and the potential impact of their retirement. It also touches on the excitement of bringing fresh blood into the Postgres community through a new startup called neon.

This week we’re taking you to the hallway track of All Things Open 2023 in Raleigh, NC. Today’s episode features: Heikki Linnakangas (Co-founder of Neon and Postgres hacker), Robert Aboukhalil (Bioinformatics software engineer) working on bringing desktop apps to the web with Wasm, and Scott Ford who loves taking a codebase from brown to green at Corgibytes.

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