Prairie Postgres NFP is excited to announce an upcoming community meetup featuring Elizabeth Christensen from Snowflake. In this session, “pg_lake: Unifying transactional and analytical data with Postgres,” we’ll explore how PostgreSQL is evolving beyond traditional transactional workloads into a unified platform for analytics and modern data lake architectures. Elizabeth will introduce the newly released pg_lake extension series, which connects PostgreSQL to object storage and open table formats including Parquet and Iceberg. Through live demos and practical examples, attendees will see how to build streamlined data pipelines with little to no ETL while leveraging the power of open source technologies like…

The Illinois Prairie PostgreSQL User Group (PUG) is pleased to announce the Second Developers’ Summit, scheduled for April 14 during our regular meetup time. Following the success of last year’s event, this summit will bring together application developers, PostgreSQL DBAs, database architects, and database developers for an interactive discussion. The goal is to better understand the challenges of using PostgreSQL as an application backend and to collaboratively explore ways to improve this interaction. If you are a software engineer who use Postgres, and if you are frustrated with bloated tables, “autovacuum blocking your processes,” partitioned tables being slow, indexes not…

We are excited to announce an upcoming talk by Paul Whalen, Senior Staff Software Engineer at PEAK6 Capital Management. In this session titled “Early Learnings Building Apps on Postgres in the Claude Code Era: The Importance of the Iteration Loop,” Paul will share insights from his experience building applications on Postgres with the help of Claude Code. He will discuss what the tool does well, where developers need to guide it, and practical strategies for using coding agents effectively in modern application development. The talk will be particularly valuable for application developers and anyone interested in leveraging AI-powered coding agents…