EPISODE · Jul 14, 2023 · 1H 18M
My favorite ways to learn more about PostgreSQL with Grant Fritchey & Ryan Booz
from Talking Postgres with Claire Giordano · host Microsoft
Everyone learns differently. Grant Fritchey and Ryan Booz, database advocates at Redgate focusing on PostgreSQL, talk with Path To Citus Con* co-hosts Claire Giordano and Pino de Candia to explore the learning resources available to developers and users in all the corners of the PostgreSQL world. What drives you to learn: need or curiosity? What can podcasts teach us while we bike to work? Are conference talks good for growing skills, or are they better for networking? What about books? And do older books still have much to offer? It turns out, most people need much more than one approach to build their knowledge. *[Update: July 2024] Path To Citus Con has been renamed to Talking Postgres. All of the past podcast episodes from Path To Citus Con—now called Talking Postgres with Claire Giordano—can be found here: https://talkingpostgres.comSome of the (many) links shared in the order they were mentioned: Talk: Ryan’s talk Point-in-time query tuning and observability with pg_stat_statements at Citus Con: An Event for Postgres 2022Blog: Learning PostgreSQL with Grant, a series for SQL Server devs learning about Postgres Podcast: postgres.fm, a weekly podcast about all things Postgres Podcast: Path To Citus Con Episode 01: Working in public on open sourceBlog aggregator: Planet PostgreSQL Email Newsletters: Cooperpress, including the Postgres Weekly email Podcast: Scaling PostgreSQL with Creston Jamison User Groups: PostgreSQL Community User Groups Videos: pganalyze "5 minutes of Postgres," by Lukas Fittl Book: The Art of PostgreSQL, by Dimitri Fontaine Book: PostgreSQL Query Optimization: The Ultimate Guide to Building Efficient Queries, by Henrietta Dombrovskaya Book: SQL Performance Explained, by Markus Winand Blog: Modern SQL, by Markus WinandBlog: Use The Index, Luke, by Markus WinandBook: Database Administration, by Craig Mullins Book: A Curious Moon, by Rob Conery Book: The Little SQL Book, by Rob Conery, “Learn SQL While Watching Football This Weekend - Free!” Event: PGDay Chicago Blog: Redgate – Simple Talk Videos: CMU Database Group’s Talks on YouTube: Quarantine (2020), First Dose (2021), Second Dose (2021), Booster (2022) Crunchy Data’s Postgres Playground Blog: CYBERTEC Blog: Citus Open Source Blog Talk: How To Make Your Postgres Blog Posts Reach A Ton More People, by Claire GiordanoConference: PGCon 2023, super useful to watch recorded talks after the fact Conference: PGConf.EU, 2022, good example of an in-person event with lots of opportunities for learning Conference: Citus Con: An Event for Postgres 2023 Conference: PGConf NYC 2023 Blog Series: PGSQL Phriday, created by Ryan BoozBlog Series: PostgreSQL Person of the Week, by Andreas Scherbaum Blog: Robert Haas' blogBlog: select * from depesz;Book: PostgreSQL 14 internals, by Egor Rogov
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Everyone learns differently. Grant Fritchey and Ryan Booz, database advocates at Redgate focusing on PostgreSQL, talk with Path To Citus Con* co-hosts Claire Giordano and Pino de Candia to explore the learning resources available to developers and users in all the corners of the PostgreSQL world. What drives you to learn: need or curiosity? What can podcasts teach us while we bike to work? Are conference talks good for growing skills, or are they better for networking? What about books? And do older books still have much to offer? It turns out, most people need much more than one approach to build their knowledge. *[Update: July 2024] Path To Citus Con has been renamed to Talking Postgres. All of the past podcast episodes from Path To Citus Con—now called Talking Postgres with Claire Giordano—can be found here: https://talkingpostgres.comSome of the (many) links shared in the order they were mentioned: Talk: Ryan’s talk Point-in-time query tuning and observability with pg_stat_statements at Citus Con: An Event for Postgres 2022Blog: Learning PostgreSQL with Grant, a series for SQL Server devs learning about Postgres Podcast: postgres.fm, a weekly podcast about all things Postgres Podcast: Path To Citus Con Episode 01: Working in public on open sourceBlog aggregator: Planet PostgreSQL Email Newsletters: Cooperpress, including the Postgres Weekly email Podcast: Scaling PostgreSQL with Creston Jamison User Groups: PostgreSQL Community User Groups Videos: pganalyze "5 minutes of Postgres," by Lukas Fittl Book: The Art of PostgreSQL, by Dimitri Fontaine Book: PostgreSQL Query Optimization: The Ultimate Guide to Building Efficient Queries, by Henrietta Dombrovskaya Book: SQL Performance Explained, by Markus Winand Blog: Modern SQL, by Markus WinandBlog: Use The Index, Luke, by Markus WinandBook: Database Administration, by Craig Mullins Book: A Curious Moon, by Rob Conery Book: The Little SQL Book, by Rob Conery, “Learn SQL While Watching Football This Weekend - Free!” Event: PGDay Chicago Blog: Redgate – Simple Talk Videos: CMU Database Group’s Talks on YouTube: Quarantine (2020), First Dose (2021), Second Dose (2021), Booster (2022) Crunchy Data’s Postgres Playground Blog: CYBERTEC Blog: Citus Open Source Blog Talk: How To Make Your Postgres Blog Posts Reach A Ton More People, by Claire GiordanoConference: PGCon 2023, super useful to watch recorded talks after the fact Conference: PGConf.EU, 2022, good example of an in-person event with lots of opportunities for learning Conference: Citus Con: An Event for Postgres 2023 Conference: PGConf NYC 2023 Blog Series: PGSQL Phriday, created by Ryan BoozBlog Series: PostgreSQL Person of the Week, by Andreas Scherbaum Blog: Robert Haas' blogBlog: select * from depesz;Book: PostgreSQL 14 internals, by Egor Rogov
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