Shaun has spent decades working in the Postgres ecosystem, specializing in architecture and high availability. His "PostgreSQL High Availability Cookbook" serves as a treatise to the lessons he learned over that time. Perhaps you've read something from his PG Phriday blog series over the years?

Currently he serves as a Postgres Architect at pgEdge, striving to help make Postgres the distributed cluster-aware platform he knows it can be!

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What's our Vector, Victor?

AI and LLMs are all the rage these days, but the real fun stuff doesn't happen until some kind of database is involved. This talk will explain how Postgres, pgvector, and the pg_vectorize extension can transform a generic hallucinating chatbot into a trained expert savant.

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