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Andrew Atkinson joins Autumn & Justin to tell them why folks should (and are) picking PostgreSQL as their database in 2024 and how to scale it.

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Featuring:

• Andrew Atkinson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
• Justin Garrison – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Autumn Nash – GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

Links of the week

• sysctl explorer
• The gender pay gap will ‘never’ close unless this happens

Interview

• Andrew’s website

Fresh OSS

• rHttp
• tu
• poetry-camera website
• Women in Open Source
• Awesome TUIs
• Awesome tmux

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!