{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Talking Postgres with Claire Giordano","title":"From MemSQL to HorizonDB, an engineer's journey with Adam Prout","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":5382,"description":"What does it take to make Postgres and Azure fit together cleanly, like puzzle pieces? In Episode 39 of Talking Postgres, Adam Prout—distinguished engineer at Microsoft and a founding architect of Azure HorizonDB—joins Claire to trace his engineering journey from MemSQL to Postgres. We dig into shared-storage architecture and how HorizonDB pushes more work into the storage layer; why the team chose Rust; and what “good systems programming” looks like when being paranoid is a feature, not a bug. Along the way: startup vs big company tradeoffs, and how working on databases exposes you to so many interesting parts of computer science.  Previously on Talking Postgres:Talking Postgres Ep29: How I got started leading database teams with Shireesh ThotaLinks mentioned in this episode:Blog post: Announcing Azure HorizonDB, by Charles Feddersen & Affan DarCMUDB talk: HorizonDB: Co-Designing Postgres and Azure for Cloud-Native OLTP, by Adam ProutResearch paper: Socrates: The New SQL Server in the CloudProduct page: Azure HorizonDBVideo of POSETTE 2025 talk: Scaling Postgres to the next level at OpenAIBlog post: Scaling PostgreSQL to power 800 million ChatGPT users, by Bohan ZhangBlog post: Supporting ChatGPT on PostgreSQL in Azure, by Affan Dar, Adam Prout, & Panagiotis Antonopoulos Docs: Azure Database for PostgreSQLGitHub repo: pgrxDiscord: PostgreSQL Hacking serverConference: PGConf.dev 2026Conference Schedule: PGConf.dev 2026 Schedule","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}