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Presenters Marcin Grzejszczak Source InfoQ podcast Level Up Your Observability: A Developer’s Guide to Micrometer 🚀💡👨‍💻 Observability is no longer a “nice-to-have” – it’s essential for building reliable and performant applications. But setting up comprehensive monitoring can be a daunting task. Enter Micrometer, a game-changing library designed to simplify the process and empower developers. This post breaks down what Micrometer is, how to get started, and best practices to ensure you’re getting the most out of it – without breaking the bank! ...

Presenters Aya Iwata Source PGConf.dev 2025 🚀 Supercharge Your Analytics: Fujitsu’s Columnar and the Vertical Clustered Index (VCI) 💡 Are you struggling to keep up with the ever-increasing demands of real-time analytics? Do you need blazing-fast query performance without sacrificing the speed of your operational updates? Then you’re going to want to learn about Fujitsu’s exciting work with PostgreSQL, the Columnar data store, and a groundbreaking community proposal called the Vertical Clustered Index (VCI)! ...

Presenters David Wheeler Source PGConf.dev 2025 Taming the Beast: Simplifying PostgreSQL Extension Management in Kubernetes 🚀 Managing PostgreSQL extensions in cloud-native environments, especially Kubernetes, can feel like wrestling a hydra. Each head represents a dependency, a configuration quirk, or a deployment hurdle. This presentation segment tackles this challenge head-on, outlining a vision for a more streamlined, accessible, and immutable extension ecosystem. The Current State of Affairs: A Complex Web 🕸️ ...

Presenters Ashutosh Bapat Source PGConf.dev 2025 Level Up Your PostgreSQL: A Deep Dive into Dynamic Shared Buffer Resizing 🚀 For PostgreSQL DBAs and developers, performance is everything. But what happens when your database is struggling under load? Often, that means adjusting the shared buffers – a critical component for caching data and speeding up queries. Unfortunately, the current process for resizing these buffers in PostgreSQL is… well, let’s just say it’s not ideal. 😬 ...

Presenters Sam Willis Source PGConf.dev 2025 🚀 PG Lite: PostgreSQL Gets Tiny & Mighty with WebAssembly 🌐 The database world is evolving, and PostgreSQL is leading the charge! 💡 This isn’t hyperbole; as one speaker eloquently put it, “PostgreSQL is eating the database world.” But how can we make this already powerful system even more accessible and versatile? The answer, as demonstrated in a recent presentation, lies in PG Lite, a groundbreaking effort to embed a fully functional PostgreSQL within a WebAssembly (Wasm) environment. Let’s dive into what this means, why it’s so exciting, and where it’s headed. ...