PostgresQL is an open source database known for its robustness, extensibility, and compliance with SQL standards.

Its ability to handle complex queries and maintain high data integrity has made it a top choice for both startups and large enterprises.

Heike Linnecongos is a leading developer for the PostgresL project, and he's a co-founder at Neon,

which provides a serverless platform for spinning up Postgres databases.

In this episode, he joins Kevin Ball to talk about why Postgres QL has become so popular,

why he founded Neon, Postgres Core versus Extensions, the PG-Vector Similarity Search for AI Applications, and much more.

Kevin Ball, or K. Ball, is the vice president of engineering at Mento and an independent coach for

engineers and engineering leaders. He co-founded and served as CTO for two companies, founded the San Diego

JavaScript Meetup,

and organizes the AI inaction discussion group through latent space.

Check out the show notes to follow KBall on Twitter or LinkedIn, or visit his website, kball welcome to the show.

I'm excited to get to talk to you.

So let's start a little bit with about you.

So can you introduce yourself and your background and what got you

to the point where we're talking today? So hi, my name is Heke Lindagangas. I've been working on

Postgres for the last 20 years for different companies. Currently, I'm a co-founder of Neon, which is a

cloud provider for Postgres. Before that, I worked for Green Plum, like an

open source analytics platform built on Postgres and many other things. But currently I'm working

on Neon on a serverless Postgres and cloud. Yeah, I have been very heavily on the Postgres train

since probably the mid-2010s. I sort of grew up on MySQL, but then at some point, they seem to really fall behind

and Postgres kept going.

And honestly, like, these days, I feel like there's all these new specialized vector dbs

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