On this episode, Kirill and Nikolay discuss Navalny, Putin on Tucker, Dugin, and the complex relationship between Russia and America. They also touch on stereotypes of Russians in American society, addressing historical influences and media bias.

Nikolay and Michael discuss JSON, options for storing it in Postgres, JSON functions available, JSONB indexing, popularity and advantages of PostgreSQL, configuring toast value threshold in Postgres, and performance penalties for medium-sized data.

Guests Alexander Korotkov, Andres Freund, and Nikolay discuss the importance of benchmarking in databases. They cover topics like conducting experiments, system limits, query optimization, and realistic workloads. They also mention specific tools like PG bench and JMeter, as well as case studies and references to books on system performance.