A Time-Series Database in Postgres - WHY?

Cloud Commute

In this episode of Simplyblock's Cloud Commute Podcast, host Chris Engelbert talks with Mike Freedman, co-founder and CTO of Timescale. Timescale enhances Postgres for handling time series data, analytics, and AI efficiently. The discussion covers Timescale's use of Kubernetes for scalable, decoupled compute and storage, ensuring high availability and efficient resource management, while tackling the challenges of managing stateful databases in Kubernetes.

In this episode of Cloud Commute, Chris and Mike discuss:

• Building TimescaleDB on top of Postgres for time series and analytics
• Challenges and benefits of partitioning, data lifecycle, and compression in databases
• Scaling databases in Kubernetes and overcoming stateful set limitations
• The future of AI integration and Postgres in application development

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You can find Mike Freedman on X @michaelfreedman and Linkedin: /mfreed.

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