It’s feels like just yesterday that Azure Flexible Server for PostgreSQL went GA. It has been an amazing & rewarding journey to have been a part of building and running this service which is growing incredibly. We have prepared a talk from the unique vantage point of lessons learned from building a managed cloud service with upstream PostgreSQL at its heart. Although I personally won’t be able to talk at the PG Conf EU 2023, Paul Meyer will rock the stage with our talk.

Abstract: With its pluggable architecture, quality code, and decades of open development PostgreSQL has proven to be a great foundation. In this talk, you will hear the lessons learned from building, running, and scaling Azure Database for PostgreSQL, which serves enterprise-customer needs. You will also hear about areas where more momentum in upstream PostgreSQL could help. This session hopes to spark conversations among fellow open-source contributors about enhancement areas and at the same time increase collaboration among cloud providers or enterprises self-hosting PostgreSQL—to learn from each other, reduce vendor lock in for users, and contribute more back to the community.