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More than a refresh: Conversations with the most interesting people you've never met
More than a Refresh is a new podcast dedicated to learning about data and the people behind it through lively conversation, diverse topics, and engaging guest speakers. We explore professional trends within the ecosystem including trouble spots, privacy, equity, democratization, and future directions. Listen wherever you get your podcasts.
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More than a refresh: Conversations with the most interesting people you've never metMTAR T3D Sessions: Why PostgreSQL’s Extended Query Protocol Complicates Caching
Serving a query from cache gets more complicated when PostgreSQL still needs to know which statements have been prepared and bound. For James Nelson, founder…
More than a refresh: Conversations with the most interesting people you've never metMTAR T3D Sessions: Why AI Needs So Much Compute | Better AI 3/6
Why does current AI need so much compute to produce an answer? In episode three of “Better AI,” our six-part series from More Than a Refresh Presents: T3D…
More than a refresh: Conversations with the most interesting people you've never metMTAR T3D Sessions: Understanding PostgreSQL Query Plans and Testing Real Workloads.
EXPLAIN shows the query plan, but understanding why PostgreSQL chose it can take more digging. Testing how a database will behave under a real workload brings…
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MTAR T3D Sessions | When Postgres Is Enough | Replacing Valkey with PostgreSQL (Part 2)
In Part 2 of "When Postgres Is Enough", Michael Cooper and JD examine what it took for AgLedger to trust PostgreSQL with work previously split between…
More than a refresh: Conversations with the most interesting people you've never metMTAR T3D Sessions: Why PostgreSQL Prioritizes Reliability
James Nelson’s Postgres Love Letter comes down to reliability: being able to depend on the database as the software around it changes. In this T3D Session…
More than a refresh: Conversations with the most interesting people you've never metMTAR 61: AI Coding and the Business of Open Source
If AI makes software easier to build, what makes it worth paying for? Lev Kokotov, creator of PgDog, joins JD for a conversation about building an open source…
More than a refresh: Conversations with the most interesting people you've never metMTAR T3D Sessions: Real-Time Materialized Views in PostgreSQL
What would it take for PostgreSQL materialized views to stay current as the underlying data changes? In this Postgres Wishlist episode, Brian joins JD to…
More than a refresh: Conversations with the most interesting people you've never metMTAR T3D Sessions: Can AI Work with Encrypted Data? | Better AI 2/6
Can an AI service work with your data without seeing it? In part two of Better AI, our six-part series from More Than a Refresh Presents: T3D Sessions, Reza…
More than a refresh: Conversations with the most interesting people you've never metMTAR T3D Sessions: Adding Schema Change Events to PostgreSQL Logical Replication
PostgreSQL logical replication can provide a selective stream of data changes, but what happens when the schema itself changes? James Nelson, Founder and CTO…
More than a refresh: Conversations with the most interesting people you've never metMTAR T3D Sessions | When Postgres Is Enough | From SaaS to Self-Hosted (Part 1)
We're kicking off When Postgres Is Enough, a new three-part T3D series with Michael Cooper, founder of AGLedger. Michael and JD follow how a data-sovereignty…
More than a refresh: Conversations with the most interesting people you've never metMTAR T3D Sessions: AI Safety Starts with Data Ownership | Better AI 1/6
This episode launches Better AI, a new six-part series from More Than a Refresh Presents: T3D Sessions, with Reza Rassool of Kwaai and JD. The series opens…
More than a refresh: Conversations with the most interesting people you've never metMTAR T3D Sessions: What's Missing from PostgreSQL Query Planning?
What should PostgreSQL do when a query plan expects 10 rows and gets 10,000? In this Postgres Wishlist episode, Greg Dostatni and JD explore how better…
More than a refresh: Conversations with the most interesting people you've never metMTAR 60: Why AI Is Overwhelming Open Source Maintainers
What happens when an open source project receives more AI-generated submissions than its maintainers can reasonably review? At Turso, it meant shutting down a…
More than a refresh: Conversations with the most interesting people you've never metMTAR T3D Sessions: PostgreSQL LDAP Authentication and Large Objects in Logical Replication
PostgreSQL may be close to perfect, but a few edge cases still leave room for improvement. In this Postgres Wishlist session, Ildefonso Camargo looks at some…
More than a refresh: Conversations with the most interesting people you've never metMTAR 59: Unlocking Your True Gift
AI is changing more than how work gets done. It is changing what becomes possible for the people doing it. In this episode of More Than a Refresh, Nikki Barua…
More than a refresh: Conversations with the most interesting people you've never metMTAR T3D Sessions: Why PostgreSQL Still Needs In-Place Major Version Upgrades
PostgreSQL major version upgrades still require more moving parts than many database teams would expect. In this Postgres Wishlist episode, James and JD…
More than a refresh: Conversations with the most interesting people you've never metMTAR T3D Sessions: Why PostgreSQL Chooses the Plans It Does
The PostgreSQL planner doesn't make random decisions. Every execution plan is shaped by statistics, cost estimates, and the information available at the time…
More than a refresh: Conversations with the most interesting people you've never metMTAR T3D Sessions: Why Paying More Doesn't Buy a Better Database
For decades, enterprise software has carried an assumption: if it costs more, it must be better. PostgreSQL challenges that idea. In this Postgres Love Letter…
More than a refresh: Conversations with the most interesting people you've never metMTAR T3D Sessions: The Future of AI Isn't More Data Centers
Does AI really need another massive data center? Or have we overlooked the computing power that's already sitting idle on millions of devices? In this episode…
More than a refresh: Conversations with the most interesting people you've never metMTAR T3D Sessions: Faster Schema Changes, Slower Queries
Faster schema changes sound like an obvious improvement. But as this conversation shows, making one database operation faster can introduce performance…
More than a refresh: Conversations with the most interesting people you've never metMTAR T3D Sessions: Why Standardizing Data Isn't the Goal
What if the biggest barrier to interoperability isn't your data, but the expectation that everyone has to use the same model? In this episode, JD is joined by…
More than a refresh: Conversations with the most interesting people you've never metMTAR T3D Sessions: Rethinking Databases for AI Applications
In this episode, Command Prompt Founder JD talks with Marcel Kornacker, CTO and Co-Founder from Pixeltable, about why AI is changing what developers need from…
More than a refresh: Conversations with the most interesting people you've never metMTAR 58: Hacktivism, Institutions, and Asking Better Questions
What begins as a conversation about AI, open source, and developer ecosystems quickly grows into something much broader. Pauline and JD explore hacktivism…
More than a refresh: Conversations with the most interesting people you've never metMTAR T3D Sessions: Why PostgreSQL Gives You an Exit Strategy
In this Postgres Love Letters episode, JD is joined by Greg Dostatni, Engineer at Command Prompt, to explore one of PostgreSQL's greatest strengths: the…
More than a refresh: Conversations with the most interesting people you've never metMTAR T3D Sessions: Scaling PostgreSQL Without Replacing It
In this episode, JD talks with Sugu Sougoumarane, Head of Multigres at Supabase and co-creator of Vitess, about one of the biggest engineering challenges…
More than a refresh: Conversations with the most interesting people you've never metMTAR T3D Sessions: PostgreSQL's Biggest Problem Isn't PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL is one of the most trusted databases in the world. So why do backups, recovery, and day-to-day operations still feel harder than they should? In…
More than a refresh: Conversations with the most interesting people you've never metMTAR T3D Sessions: Human Creativity, and Quality: AI's Kryptonite
In this episode, JD talks with Phenom strategist Cliff Jurkiewicz about hiring, artificial intelligence, and why most conversations around AI miss the…
More than a refresh: Conversations with the most interesting people you've never metMTAR 57: AI, Rural America, and the Communities in Between
In this episode, JD talks with Andrew Aitken, Founder of the Center for Rural AI, about what AI adoption looks like outside major cities and tech hubs. Andrew…
More than a refresh: Conversations with the most interesting people you've never metMTAR T3D Sessions: PostgreSQL Is Still Paying for Old MVCC Decisions
In this Postgres Pet Peeves episode, JD talks with Jonah Harris about one of PostgreSQL’s oldest and most debated architectural choices: MVCC and the storage…
More than a refresh: Conversations with the most interesting people you've never metMTAR T3D Sessions: AI Agents, SQL, and Why Context Still Matters
In this episode, JD talks with MotherDuck Co-Founder and CEO Jordan Tigani about how AI agents are starting to change the way teams explore and interact with…
More than a refresh: Conversations with the most interesting people you've never metMTAR T3D Sessions: Why PostgreSQL Still Hides the Data You Need
In this Postgres Pet Peeves episode, JD talks with Ryan Booz from PG Analyze about a problem many PostgreSQL teams run into far too late: the visibility you…
More than a refresh: Conversations with the most interesting people you've never metMTAR T3D Sessions: Why Enterprise Security Got So Complicated
In this episode, Bradon Rogers, Chief Customer Officer at Island, joins JD to break down how enterprise environments became so complex. Over the years…
More than a refresh: Conversations with the most interesting people you've never metMTAR T3D Sessions: Why XIDs Are Still a Problem in Postgres
In this Postgres Pet Peeves episode, Justin Graf and JD take on a long-standing issue in PostgreSQL: transaction IDs (XIDs) and what happens when they wrap…
More than a refresh: Conversations with the most interesting people you've never metMTAR T3D Sessions: Why Coding Alone Isn’t Enough Anymore
In this episode, Joris Kuipers, CTO and hands-on architect, joins JD to talk about what it really means to grow as an engineer. As AI begins to take on more of…
More than a refresh: Conversations with the most interesting people you've never metMTAR 56: Who Controls Security, Data, and Information?
JD and Thomas Carnevale, Founder of Umbrella Security, get into how modern security infrastructure connects to questions around control, authority, and…
More than a refresh: Conversations with the most interesting people you've never metMTAR T3D Sessions: Why Postgres Defaults Don’t Match Reality
In this Postgres Pet Peeves episode, Greg Dostatni and JD take on a problem most teams run into early but rarely question: default configuration. PostgreSQL…
More than a refresh: Conversations with the most interesting people you've never metMTAR T3D Sessions: The Hidden Cost of Default Values in Postgres
Adding a column with a default value feels like a safe change. It is fast, avoids locking, and keeps things moving. But in Postgres, that speed comes from a…
More than a refresh: Conversations with the most interesting people you've never metMTAR T3D Sessions: Before You Add Another Database, Try Postgres
In this episode, Denis Magda, author of Just Use Postgres, joins JD to talk about how PostgreSQL is often misunderstood. Many developers still approach…
More than a refresh: Conversations with the most interesting people you've never metMTAR T3D Sessions: Why Companies Can’t Rely on OSS Maintainers Alone
In this episode, Pauline Vos, software engineer and open source maintainer for MongoDB’s PHP ecosystem, breaks down a reality most teams overlook: the open…
More than a refresh: Conversations with the most interesting people you've never metMTAR 55: Data as Product, Open Source Ideals, and Corporate Incentives
Welcome to Episode 55 of More Than a Refresh, where JD sits down with Kellyn Pot’Vin-Gorman, Developer Advocate at Redgate, for a candid conversation about AI…
More than a refresh: Conversations with the most interesting people you've never metMTAR T3D Sessions: Lies, Bots, and the Internet We Trust
In this episode of More Than a Refresh: T3D Sessions, Marijn Markus, AI Lead and Managing Data Scientist at Capgemini, breaks down a question most teams aren’t…
More than a refresh: Conversations with the most interesting people you've never metMTAR T3D Sessions: What Actually Stops Crime (And What Doesn’t)
In this episode, JD talks with Thomas Carnevale, founder of Umbrella Security, about a gap most people don’t realize exists until it’s too late: the difference…
More than a refresh: Conversations with the most interesting people you've never metMTAR T3D Sessions: Tech Rescue and the Rise of the Life Concierge
In this episode, JD sits down with Andrew Bolton, Co-Founder and CEO of Tech Rescue, to explore what happens when a hyper-connected world leaves millions…
More than a refresh: Conversations with the most interesting people you've never metMTAR T3D Sessions: Designing AWS IAM Policies Without Breaking Production
In this episode, JD sits down with Hunter O’Brien to break down one of the most misunderstood areas of AWS: Identity and Access Management (IAM). Designing…
More than a refresh: Conversations with the most interesting people you've never metMTAR 55: Age Verification Laws, Online Privacy and the Future of Free Speech
Welcome to episode 55 of More Than a Refresh. In this episode, JD talks with Samantha Baldwin, Policy & Research Staff Technologist at the Electronic Frontier…
More than a refresh: Conversations with the most interesting people you've never metMTAR T3D Sessions: Why Postgres Is So Hard to Change
In this Postgres Pet Peeves episode, JD sits down with Yurii Rashkovskii to unpack a frustration many experienced engineers quietly share: why is Postgres so…
More than a refresh: Conversations with the most interesting people you've never metMTAR T3D Sessions: When Should You Actually Use the Cloud?
In this episode, JD sits down with Command Prompt CIO Ildefonso Camargo to challenge a common assumption in modern infrastructure: If you can afford the cloud…
More than a refresh: Conversations with the most interesting people you've never metMTAR T3D Sessions: Missing Pieces of Wellness
In this episode, JD sits down with Amanda Nystrom, CEO of Command Prompt and National Board Certified Health & Wellbeing Coach, to talk about wellness for…
More than a refresh: Conversations with the most interesting people you've never metMTAR T3D Sessions: Scaling PostgreSQL Without Rewriting Your Application
In this episode, Joshua “JD” Drake talks with Lev Kokotov, creator of PGDog, about one of the hardest problems in PostgreSQL: horizontal scaling in real…
More than a refresh: Conversations with the most interesting people you've never metMTAR 54: AI Hype vs Reality, Scaling Limits, and What Comes Next
Welcome to Episode 54 of More Than a Refresh, where JD sits down with Kevin Jernigan to talk about AI hype versus reality, the real limits of scaling large…
More than a refresh: Conversations with the most interesting people you've never metMTAR T3D Sessions: RDS Lowers the Barrier—Not the Risk
In this episode, JD sits down with Brian Fehrle to unpack a deceptively simple PostgreSQL operation that can trigger serious performance issues: adding a new…
More than a refresh: Conversations with the most interesting people you've never metMTAR T3D Sessions: Why Small Wins Create Exponential Growth
In this episode, JD is joined by Alan Lazaros for a conversation about systems, consistency, and the long game behind meaningful progress. While most people…
More than a refresh: Conversations with the most interesting people you've never metHow Your AWS Storage Decisions Shape Cost, Performance, and Risk
In this AWS-focused episode, Command Prompt Founder JD talks with James Campbell about one of the most common (and most expensive) sources of cloud surprises…
More than a refresh: Conversations with the most interesting people you've never metMTAR T3D Sessions: How AgentFS Rethinks State, Isolation, and Speed for AI Agents
In this episode, Command Prompt Founder JD talks with Glauber Costa about AgentFS, a virtual file system designed to solve one of the hardest problems in…
More than a refresh: Conversations with the most interesting people you've never metMTAR 53: Enshittification, Open Standards, and the Risk of Losing the Internet
JD welcomes back Andrew Sullivan, former Chair of the Internet Architecture Board and former President & CEO of the Internet Society. Listen in as they…
More than a refresh: Conversations with the most interesting people you've never metMTAR T3D Sessions: Why Wellness is Key to Performance in Tech
JD sits down with Amanda Nystrom to explore an often-overlooked reality in the tech industry: wellness is not a personal side concern—it’s a performance issue…
More than a refresh: Conversations with the most interesting people you've never metMTAR T3D Sessions: Why Code Generation Still Matters
In this episode, Command Prompt Founder Joshua “JD” Drake talks with Andrew Smith, Senior Developer/DBA, about a foundational concept in software engineering…
More than a refresh: Conversations with the most interesting people you've never metMTAR T3D Sessions: Why Monitoring Isn’t Enough: The Case for Full Postgres Logging
In this episode, Command Prompt Founder JD talks with Justin Graf, Senior DBA & Engineer at Command Prompt, about a topic every Postgres team needs to…
More than a refresh: Conversations with the most interesting people you've never metMTAR T3D Sessions: How your AWS decisions today shape your flexibility, cost, and vendor dependencies
Command Prompt Founder JD sits down with Greg Dostatni, Senior DBA at Command Prompt, to unpack a topic that every team running PostgreSQL in the cloud…
More than a refresh: Conversations with the most interesting people you've never metMTAR T3D Sessions: Implementing Real-World Security and Compliance
James breaks down the difference between checking the box for compliance and implementing meaningful, real-world security. From encryption-at-rest…