As you may have seen, since spinning out the Postgres news, I wasn't able to post as regularly as I wished. Therefore, there are some articles in my backlog, and I thought it would be a good idea to share some of those in this edition.

In the "Meetup-Collection" are …

Yesterday DuckLabs announced that they will join AWS. They promise that DuckDB and the Duck Stack will remain open source. The team shared some insights of their plans for the future, and some, like opening up the extension ecosystem, sound very interesting.

Werner Vogels published a blog entry written by …

This week we had a kind of field trip with our summer intern. He wanted to see one of our other offices and wanted to enjoy the view.

At work, I was finally able to upgrade our deployment pipelines to use mTLS for getting secrets into the container workloads.

Yesterday …

It has been a while since the last edition of the Postgres news. But this week I had the time to summarize some news.

This edition will not cover all interesting Postgres articles since the previous edition, but we will see if they will appear in another edition ;-)

New Postgres …

A little while ago Michael Malis caught some attention with his article pgrust: Rebuilding Postgres in Rust with AI. He introduced pgrust, a modern Postgres rewrite in Rust with the help of AI.

A couple of weeks later he shared in Postgres in Rust: three dead ends before we passed …

Interesting news appeared today. Andy Pablo joins ClickHouse and will be the head of a new research lab at ClickHouse called ClickHouse Labs.

It is definitely a big name that joins ClickHouse. ClickHouse offers a managed Postgres service and on focus of ClickHouse Labs will performance improvements in Postgres. At …

Another week, another heatwave, That could be the theme of the summer this year. The small streams in Graz are already dry. And it seems like the heatwave will last at least for another week.

It was an interesting week where we saw the beginning of two new periods of …

There are a lot of articles about Postgres 19 published at the moment. It seems like there is a big excitement about the upcoming Postgres 19 release.

We are already testing some upgrade paths. Just to be sure that we can roll out the upgrades when Postgres 19 is released …

The last two weeks were quite busy. And I will try something new this week. As mentioned the last days, there are own editions of the Postgres and AI news.

At work, we are busy preparing data for a conference in July. As usual, we are a little bit behind …

As mentioned in the AI recap, I am experimenting with a new format. And I think Postgres deserves a more focused recap than the Weeknotes could offer.

For the first edition, we have a couple of interesting articles of the last two weeks. And I am happy to see that …

Another short week here in Austria. That usually means a couple of intense days.

We were evaluating a new Software. So I downloaded the latest container image and started it. We wanted to authenticate against our Keycloak server, but it didn't work.

I was already starting to feel a little …

It was a quite successful week. I was able to successfully complete many of the tasks I had to do. Some tasks made me feel a little bit giddy.

This week a heatwave started, and we already had over 30 degrees. But the week finally brought a little bit of …

I've been to the black forest, and that is the reason I didn't publish last week's weeknotes. I thought let's try this week one more double-entry bookkeeping. Due to a long weekend here in Austria, the weeknotes are published on a Monday.

The time at the black forest and the …

Finally, this week brought some rain. It was very dry the last couple of months, and in some parts of Austria there was almost no rain the whole year. The parks and meadows looked already like they look at the end of the summer.

Although it would have been better …

What a week. I upgraded to Fedora 43. Fedora supports the last two versions, and Fedora 44 was released this week. Somehow I managed that I am always a little behind.

Anyway. After the upgrade, the graphical userinterface didn't work anymore. And the home directory was not mounted anymore.

It …

This week was a week of a couple of first-timers. On a business trip, the train to Vienna used the Pottendorfer Linie between Wiener Neustadt and Vienna. And on the way back, I used the first time the Westbahn.

Despite that, the business trip was exhausting as usual. It is …

I had the second cold this winter season during the week. That was surprising. I can't remember when I had the last time twice a season. Thankfully, two coworkers figured out that I am just getting old ;-)

It was a busy week. After last week's Mythos madness, a lot of …

It was a short week. Monday was a holiday here in Austria. Despite that, it feels like a long week.

Because Friday and Saturday were the Grazer Linuxtage 2026. The biggest open-source event of the year in Graz. As usual, an event with great speakers.

And two friends from Germany …

In Austria, it was a quiet week because of the Easter holiday. And the Easter holiday is the reason why I published on a Monday.

What a wild week. On the security front, there was a lot of big news and breaches. Some called it the dawn of a new …

The supply chain attacks evolved this week. More and more projects are breached. It seems like Trivy was just the beginning.

Google published the M-Trends 2026 Report. As usual, it is an interesting read.

At work, we had a premiere. The first time two coworkers gave a little concert for …