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…

We’re excited to invite you to the next Prairie Postgres meetup on February 18, continuing our 2026 series of PostgreSQL learning and community engagement for the Illinois Prairie PostgreSQL User Group. This meetup will feature Shaun Thomas, Principal Software Engineer at pgEdge, presenting a talk on what comes next after pgvector in the evolving Postgres AI ecosystem. Shaun will explore how technologies such as Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) and Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers help connect large language models to real data, reduce hallucinations, and enable more practical and reliable AI applications built on PostgreSQL. This session is ideal for…

We’re back after the holidays and excited to announce the first Prairie Postgres meetup of 2026, taking place on January 13. This event kicks off a new year of PostgreSQL learning and community engagement for the Illinois Prairie PostgreSQL User Group. The meetup will feature Ryan Booze, Solutions Engineer at pganalyze, presenting a practical session on PostgreSQL logging and query optimization. Attendees will learn how to configure and use built-in PostgreSQL tools such as pg_stat_statements and auto_explain to analyze query performance, identify bottlenecks, and improve database reliability. This meetup is ideal for Postgres developers, database engineers, and DBAs who want…