Discussion on PG-CAD, Middleware, and Application Side Sharding

Here are links to a few things we mentioned: 

1. Startups building momentum

• Aiven raised $210m  
• Timescale raised $110m  
• Hasura raised $100m  
• Supabase raised $80m  
• Neon raised $30m 
• Hydra  
• OrioleDB  

2. Educational resources

• Postgres FM started 👋
• Postgres TV became more active (including topic playlists)  
• Tobias Petry tips on Twitter and SQL for Devs  
• Hussein Nasser YouTube channel (backend engineering) 
• Postgres Weekly (newsletter) 

3. Sharding progress

• Citus goes fully open source  
• SPQR  
• pgcat 
• Sharding Postgres at Notion (blog post) 
• PlanetScale (MySQL) 

4. Database branching is coming

• Database Lab Engine  
• Neon branching 
• OrioleDB branching  
• Crunchy Bridge 
• Database branching episode  

5. Postgres is everywhere

• All cloud providers
• AlloyDB announced 
• Kubernetes operators (comparison blog post) 

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