The Power and Potential of Open Source

Nikolay and Michael discuss self-managing Postgres — both the practicalities of doing so, as well as some managed-service style tooling. 
 
Here are some links to some things they mentioned:

• Our episode on Managed services vs. DIY https://postgres.fm/episodes/managed-services-vs-diy 
• WAL-G https://github.com/wal-g/wal-g 
• pgBackRest https://pgbackrest.org/ 
• Barman https://github.com/EnterpriseDB/barman 
• Dead Man’s Snitch https://deadmanssnitch.com/ 
• Netdata https://www.netdata.cloud/ 
• Upgrades https://postgres.fm/episodes/upgrades  
• High availability https://postgres.fm/episodes/high-availability 
• Configuration https://postgres.fm/episodes/default-configuration 
• Corruption https://postgres.fm/episodes/corruption 
• Connection poolers https://postgres.fm/episodes/connection-poolers 
• Index maintenance https://postgres.fm/episodes/index-maintenance 
• StackGres supported extensions (Michael was wrong, it also has a timescale_tls extension!) https://stackgres.io/extensions/ 
• postgresql_cluster https://github.com/vitabaks/postgresql_cluster 
• Supabase self-hosting https://supabase.com/docs/guides/self-hosting
• Tembo https://github.com/tembo-io/tembo 
• Open source licenses, clouds, Postgres (Postgres TV discussion) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rcbyIjA4gI&t=149s 

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Postgres FM is brought to you by:

• Nikolay Samokhvalov, founder of Postgres.ai
• Michael Christofides, founder of pgMustard

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