Compiled Conversations

Bruce Momjian traces Postgres's 39-year journey from Berkeley to today, why extensibility (PostGIS, JSON, pgvector) became its superpower, and how the community sustains momentum. We cover TDE trade-offs in core, scaling and storage realities, and decoupled storage/compute in the cloud (Aurora, Neon) - plus what it means to stay 'on the train'.

In Part 2, Vlad Khononov applies DDD in practice - covering context-mapping patterns, EventStorming, fit-for-purpose architecture, testing, team ownership, pragmatic adoption, plus AI's impact on modeling.

Author and trainer Vlad Khononov joins us for Part 1 of a deep dive into Domain-Driven Design (DDD). We cover what DDD is really for, why strategic DDD matters more than patterns, how to identify subdomains, the relationship between subdomains and bounded contexts, and how to make pragmatic architecture choices that align with your business.

Matthieu Napoli, creator of Bref, shares how PHP found its place in serverless through AWS Lambda - and what it takes to run modern applications without managing infrastructure. We cover Bref's architecture, Laravel/Symfony support, Bref Cloud, and trade-offs with containers and Kubernetes.

In Part 2, James Eastham returns to tackle the practical side of event-driven architecture - covering failure recovery, orchestration vs. choreography, testing strategies, handling sensitive data, and how to migrate from a monolith using real-world patterns.

Developer advocate James Eastham joins us for Part 1 of a deep dive into the core principles of event-driven architecture (EDA), including types of coupling, asynchronous communication, event design, and real-world trade-offs in building distributed systems.