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How I got started as a developer & in Postgres with Daniel Gustafsson | Talking Postgres Ep23

March 5th 2005 at 3 PM in Copenhagen. That’s the exact time and place Daniel Gustafsson’s career took an unexpected turn, pivoting from operating systems to databases. At LinuxForum that day, Daniel had planned to meet up with the FreeBSD community, but a chance session about Postgres by Bruce Momjian completely blew his mind. By the time Daniel was on the train back to Malmö, he was already compiling Postgres. In this episode of Talking Postgres with Claire Giordano, Postgres major contributor and committer Daniel Gustafsson of Microsoft walks us through how he got his start as a developer and in Postgres—starting with his earliest computing memories of a hulking steel box in his family’s living room in Sweden. Also part of Daniel’s story: guitar tuning software. And curl! 📜 Full transcript available at: https://talkingpostgres.com/episodes/... ✅ Listen to more episodes of Talking Postgres: https://talkingpostgres.com 💥 Subscribe to Talking Postgres, so you never miss an episode: https://talkingpostgres.com/subscribe Chapters: ⏩ 00:00 Beginning ⏩ 01:41 Big steel box ⏩ 07:40 First developer job ⏩ 10:46 Databases for storing stuff ⏩ 13:24 Mind blown by Postgres ⏩ 23:23 CHAR(10) in Oxford ⏩ 41:48 Biggest failure ⏩ 46:57 Organizing conferences ⏩ 01:08:52 Working on curl Links mentioned in this episode: 🔹 Wikipedia: ABC 80: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABC_80 🔹 Wikipedia: mSQL aka mini SQL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSQL 🔹 Wikipedia: PCBoard BBS (bulletin board system) application: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCBoard 🔹 Conference back in 2010: CHAR(10) – Clustering, HA and Replication Conference 2010: https://www.postgresql.org/about/news... 🔹 Wikipedia: IRIX operating system: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRIX 🔹 Internet Archive Wayback Machine link to Linuxforum Conference Agenda from March 5, 2005 with Bruce Momjian’s 3:00pm talk about Postgres: https://web.archive.org/web/201202292... 🔹 Podcast: Solving every data problem in SQL with Dimitri Fontaine & Vik Fearing: https://talkingpostgres.com/episodes/... 🔹 Nordic PGDay 2025 to happen Mar 18th in Copenhagen: https://2025.nordicpgday.org/ 🔹 All Things Open 2025 to happen Oct 12-14 in Raleigh NC: https://2025.allthingsopen.org/ 🔹 PGConf.dev 2025 to happen May 13-16 in Montreal, Canada: https://2025.pgconf.dev/ 🔹 CFP: POSETTE: An Event for Postgres 2025 CFP open until Feb 9 2025: https://posetteconf.com/2025/cfp/ 🔹 Slides from PGConfEU 2024 Talk: What’s in a Postgres major release? An analysis of contributions in v17 timeframe: https://speakerdeck.com/clairegiordan... 🔹 Video of PGConf EU 2024 Talk: Analysis of contributions in the v17 timeframe, by Claire Giordano:    • Claire Giordano - What's in a Postgres maj...   🔹 Book recommendation: The Dragon Book, a.k.a. Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compile... 🔹 Book recommendation: The Purple Book (or, Wizard Book), a.k.a. Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (SICP): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structu... 🔹 Book recommendation: The Practice of Programming by Kernighan & Pike: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pra... 🔹 Cal invite for LIVE recording of next Ep24 of Talking Postgres with guest Robert Haas: https://aka.ms/talkingpostgres-ep24-cal/ #TalkingPostgres #podcast #PostgreSQL