What’s new with Postgres at Microsoft, 2024 edition
In this post you’ll get a bird’s eye view of all the Postgres work happening at Microsoft—with highlights for each of the workstreams from the last 8 months. And there’s a lot of ground to cover. Our PostgreSQL database investments encompass both Azure and open source, the Postgres core plus the broader Postgres ecosystem, plus PG community work too.
For anyone who still thinks of Microsoft as only a SQL Server company, well, that may be our past—but our present and future very much include PostgreSQL too.
[Me] So here is the first version of this “What’s new with Postgres at Microsoft” post, published late last Aug 2023.
Pulling together all these highlights is so much fun because I get to interview some of the many super-smart Postgres developers in our team.
The Microsoft workstreams covered in this post includes open-source contributions to the PostgreSQL core; development on Postgres extensions such as Citus, work on key utilities in the PG ecosystem such as PgBouncer, pgcopydb, and Patroni; our community work around events such as the upcoming POSETTE: An Event for Postgres (free and virtual, happening Jun 11-13) as well as talks and podcasts—and of course, our work on the managed database service, Azure Database for PostgreSQL.
