Today we’re joined by Ray Lane and DJ Patil from GreatPoint Ventures. Ray, known for his pivotal role at Oracle during its turnaround, shares his journey from the US Army to top tech positions and eventually co-founding GreatPoint Ventures, where he supports entrepreneurs. DJ Patil – investor, entrepreneur, and former U.S. Chief Data Scientist – joins to dive into the evolution of databases.

Tune in as they share their experiences with early databases such as Db2, the rise of Postgres, and current challenges in the tech landscape. With insights on leadership, community-driven development, and more, this episode is a must-listen for developers, entrepreneurs, and tech enthusiasts.

In this episode, we explore:

• The critical need for evolving roles within a company to foster growth
• Challenges of data distribution vs. keeping data centralized and speedy
• “Siding with the community” and enhancing user capabilities
• The risks of rushing towards generative AI, and the importance data hygiene and data culture

Links mentioned:

GreatPoint Ventures

DJ Patil on LinkedIn

Ray Lane on LinkedIn

Sai Srirampur is the co-founder of PeerDB and a veteran Postgres Solutions Engineer with experience at Citus Data and Microsoft. He has been at the forefront of optimizing and scaling Postgres for large data workloads and is now spearheading innovation in data movement and replication with PeerDB. In this episode, we'll discuss the challenges of tuning massive Postgres systems, real-time data streaming solutions, and PeerDB’s vision for the future.

In this episode we explore:

• Leaving Microsoft and starting Sai’s own company, PeerDB
• Developing PeerDB's data movement and replication tool
• Why Postgres might not be suitable for everything at a large scale
• Having team members be database experts first before being software developers
• The growing customer demand for Clickhouse and Snowflake

Links mentioned:

PeerDB

Sai Srirampur on X (@saisrirampur)

Sai Srirampur on LinkedIn

In this episode, we talk Postgres committer Melanie Plagemean about her involvement with @PGConfdev, improvements to vacuum scheduling and auto vacuum configuration, the logical replication of DDL, and platforms such as CNCF and Kubernetes integrating with Postgres.

Links mentioned:

PGConf.dev

YouTube – CMU Database Group

Path To Citus Con Podcast

@melanieplageman@mastodon.social

Melanie on X (@melanieplageman)