A 30 Year History of the Postgres Project

The PostgreSQL project officially began in 1997 when the open source community formed around a fork of a former Berkeley University project. Since then, it has grown to become one of the most influential projects in Open Source, with hundreds of contributors and powering countless applications. We'll talk about the history of the project, and the factors that helped to make it successful in the past and today by seeing it through technical and cultural lenses.