Databricks built Lakebase, a serverless Postgres that decouples compute from storage by moving storage to the lake.
“we're going to have more software generated in the next year than in the history of humanity”
databases
19 tracked signals on databases.
Microsoft unveiled Horizon DB for Postgres and a Cosmos DB agent memory toolkit for building AI apps and agents.
“Memory is one of the most important things when building your AI agents.”
A new project called Turso is rewriting SQLite from scratch in Rust to make it fully open source and concurrent.
“If someone told you they were rewriting SQLite in Rust, I think you'd have trouble figuring out if they were one of the smartest people you ever met or one of the dumbest.”
TiDB consolidates agent memory into one SQL database, replacing the three-database-plus-ETL stack most teams use.
“you're running millions of agents at the same time and each with their own state”
Basic SQL/PGQ property graph support has been committed to PostgreSQL 19, enabling relational data to be queried as graphs.
“We have committed basic support for this standard in PostgreSQL 19.”
CloudNativePG's new failoverQuorum feature brings quorum-based consistency to synchronous Postgres replication on Kubernetes.
“if you're running Postgres on Kubernetes, then I do think everybody should use synchronous replication”
Azure SQL Hyperscale can consolidate vector, graph, document, and analytics workloads to avoid polyglot database tax.
“When I say poly cloud tax, I mean having having the tax that you pay for choosing multiple databases.”
PostgreSQL 18 ships major vacuum improvements: async I/O, dynamic autovacuum scaling, and dead-tuple caps.
“PostgreSQL 18 delivers the most significant collection of vacuum and analyze improvements over the years.”
pgcov is a new open-source CLI tool that brings test coverage analysis to PostgreSQL SQL and PL/pgSQL code.
“PostgreSQL code has no coverage visibility yet.”
POSETTE 2026 Livestream 3 previews Postgres talks spanning WAL internals, logical replication, performance, and AI agents on databases.
“The move from simple queries to AI agents.”
PostgreSQL accumulated a dozen authentication methods over decades, evolving from trust to external token-based identity providers.
“Every method you'll see on the pg_hba.conf file solved a real problem at a real moment sometime in the past.”
AWS introduces Bulk Executor for DynamoDB to simplify large-scale bulk operations.
Azure launches flexible spend-based savings plans for database cost optimization
“It's a flexible spend-based commitment that gives you meaningful discounts across eligible Azure database services without locking you into a specific service, region, or configuration.”
PostgreSQL logical replication evolved from 9.4 API primitives to native core support, heading toward multi-master.
“We'll go from its earliest building blocks in PostgreSQL 9.4 all the way to the multi-master distributed future that's being actively built right now.”
Postgres' write-ahead log underpins crash recovery, point-in-time recovery, and physical and logical replication.
“Write-ahead log is basically the change-log for the database.”
Postgres 18 introduces temporal keys and promotes NOT NULL to a first-class constraint.
“I read all the changelog, so you don't need to go through it yourself.”
Django 5.0 added a GeneratedField ORM layer over PostgreSQL Generated Columns, computed in-database for speed.
“using Django in the right way, you have to try to use the lower level if you want to be faster”
POSETTE 2026 Livestream 2 previews Postgres talks on the feature freeze, PG Lake, Oracle migration, internals, and authentication.
“Why do some Postgres patches make the cut while others miss the boat or even get reverted in the end?”
A Microsoft PostgreSQL program manager explains how fuzzing finds deep bugs in complex codebases like databases.
“Fuzzing is automated testing that throws unexpected inputs.”