The Database That Should Be Dead but Runs the Internet

Try out Supabase: https://supabase.plug.dev/UU8hPLU The most critical database on the internet is maintained by a "pickup team" of volunteers with no CEO, no owner, and no clear successor. This is the 30-year story of how Postgres outlasted every database that tried to kill it — and the unanswered question of who carries it forward. 🔗 Links: MY 12K+ DISCORD 💬   / discord   CONNECT WITH ME ON SOCIAL 📸 Instagram:   / lewismenelaws   🎚TikTok:  / lewismenelaws   🐣 Twitter:   / lewismenelaws   My gear 💻 https://liinks.co/lewismenelaws ⏱️ Chapters: 00:00 The Software Nobody Owns 00:34 Codd, Stonebreaker, and the Birth of Ingres 03:00 The Postgres Rewrite 05:12 Sponsor — Supabase 06:18 Postgres 95 and the Berkeley Handoff 08:24 The Volunteers Who Saved It 14:13 Surviving NoSQL and the Cloud Era 19:00 pgvector, AI, and the Question of Succession #postgresql #opensource #programming