{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Talking Postgres with Claire Giordano","title":"How I got started as a dev and in Postgres with Melanie Plageman & Thomas Munro","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":4646,"description":"In this episode of Path To Citus Con*, Melanie Plageman, a PostgreSQL hacker working at Microsoft, and Thomas Munro, PostgreSQL developer and committer also at Microsoft talk with co-hosts Claire Giordano and Pino de Candia. They talk through all the different ways they got started as developers. Does making your first patch to Postgres get you hooked for a lifetime? Do you have to be a tinkerer to be a good software engineer? What is the “toothbrush test”—and how do you make your avocation be your vocation? We hear stories about dropping out of school or dropped out of career fields before they found their true passions in development and Postgres. \n\n*[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.com\nSome of the links mentioned in the order they were said: \nParallelism in PostgreSQL 15: Thomas’ Citus Con talk \nAdditional IO Observability in Postgres with pg_stat_io: Melanie’s Citus Con talk \nVisualizing PostgreSQL I/O Performance for Development: Melanie’s talk at PGCon 2023\nAdd pg_stat_io view, providing more detailed IO statistics, committed by Melanie Plageman in PG 16  \nNeil deGrasse Tyson’s podcast StarTalk \nFrom Nand to Tetris by Noam Nisan and Shimon Schocken \nSinclair ZX81 \nAll Things Open conference \nPostgreSQL BuildFarm \nQueues in PostgreSQL: Thomas’ 2022 talk ","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/96oK6oMtH0qfumCURmVA4Hg7enGdZ1swehO6BOYsd8w/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS84OWEw/YmE3ZDQ5MDI3NzA5/MTljZThlODg3N2Qy/M2M1YS5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}