How Postgres Quietly Became the #1 Database on Earth

Try out Supabase: https://supabase.plug.dev/UU8hPLU The most critical database on the internet is maintained by a "pickup team" of volunteers with no CEO, no owner, and no clear successor. This is the 30-year story of how Postgres outlasted every database that tried to kill it — and the unanswered question of who carries it forward. 🔗 Links: MY 12K+ DISCORD 💬 https://discord.gg/GkrFX4zT2C CONNECT WITH ME ON SOCIAL 📸 Instagram: https://instagram.com/lewismenelaws 🎚TikTok:https://tiktok.com/@lewismenelaws 🐣 Twitter: https://twitter.com/LewisMenelaws My gear 💻 https://liinks.co/lewismenelaws ⏱️ Chapters: 00:00 The Software Nobody Owns 00:34 Codd, Stonebreaker, and the Birth of Ingres 03:00 The Postgres Rewrite 05:12 Sponsor — Supabase 06:18 Postgres 95 and the Berkeley Handoff 08:24 The Volunteers Who Saved It 14:13 Surviving NoSQL and the Cloud Era 19:00 pgvector, AI, and the Question of Succession #postgresql #opensource #programming