Building Postgres services on Azure with Charles Fedderse...

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Why does SQL feel so approachable to some developers, and why do some of them end up spending their careers in the data layer? In Episode 37 of Talking Postgres, Charles Feddersen, who leads product for Postgres at Microsoft, joins Claire to talk about building Postgres services on Azure. We explore his path from classic ASP apps on Microsoft Access to distributed Postgres with Citus, the moment he installed pgAdmin and got pulled deeper into Postgres, and what it takes to build for the many different ways people rely on Postgres today—from Flexible Server and Azure HorizonDB to developer tooling—and why it’s important to support the upstream Postgres open source project.Previously on Talking Postgres:Ep 22: Leading engineering for Postgres on Azure with Affan Dar: https://talkingpostgres.com/episodes/leading-engineering-for-postgres-on-azure-with-affan-darEp29: How I got started leading database teams with Shireesh Thota https://talkingpostgres.com/episodes/how-i-got-started-leading-database-teams-with-shireesh-thotaLinks mentioned in this episode:Video of CMUDB talk: HorizonDB: Co‑Designing PostgreSQL and Azure for Cloud‑Native OLTP, by Adam ProutVideo of talk: Azure HorizonDB: Deep Dive into a New Enterprise-Scale PostgreSQL, by Adam Prout & Denzil RibeiroTalk at SCALE 23x: Did VS Code Quietly Become a Go-To Postgres Tool?, by Phil Vacca Visual Studio Code Marketplace: VS Code extension for PostgreSQLDocs: Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible ServerGitHub repo: Citus open sourcePostgres extension: PostGISConference: PGConf India 2026Upcoming conferences & talks mentioned:Conference: PGConf.dev 2026 in Vancouver CanadaConference: Microsoft Build 2026Keynote at POSETTE: An Event for Postgres 2026: Driving Postgres forward at MicrosoftPOSETTE: An Event for Postgres 2026: ScheduleConference: Postgres Summit US 2026 (formerly PGConf NYC)Conference: PGConf EU 2026 in ValenciaCalendar invite: LIVE recording of Ep38 of Talking Postgres to happen on Wed Apr 08, 2026

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Why does SQL feel so approachable to some developers, and why do some of them end up spending their careers in the data layer? In Episode 37 of Talking Postgres, Charles Feddersen, who leads product for Postgres at Microsoft, joins Claire to talk...

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