Elephant in the Room, Episode 1: Working with Long Form Text in PostgreSQL and Django
Welcome to “Elephant in the Room – Presented by Aiven.
In this new live series, we dig into the real-world challenges developers face when building modern applications on PostgreSQL®, the elephant everyone depends on but few truly understand.
Episode 1:
Join Jay Miller, Staff Product Advocate at Aiven, and special guest Jeff Triplett, Partner & Engineer at REVSYS and long-time Django community leader, as they explore how developers can harness PostgreSQL’s native text-search capabilities to build faster, smarter, and more efficient applications.
In this episode, you’ll learn:
🔷 How to transcribe conference talks and store those talks in PG
🔷 Practical ways to optimize full-text search and pattern matching
🔷 Tips and examples from a live-built demo app
🔷 How open-source communities like Django and PostgreSQL influence each other
Featuring live coding, discussion, and developer-friendly insights, this episode is perfect for anyone who’s ever wondered: “How far can I really push Postgres with text?”
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