talk Jun 2026 · Data + AI Summit

Predictable Migrations: Scaling Lakebase Adoption With Provider-Agnostic Readiness Tools

Session at Databricks Data + AI Summit 2026 with Fatine Boujnouni on tooling that makes Lakebase migrations predictable regardless of the source Postgres provider.

Databricks Lakebase Migrations

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talk Jun 2026 · Seattle Postgres

Change How You Vibecode with Postgres

Talk at the Seattle Postgres meetup on the postgres-dba AI agent skill. Same prompts, dramatically better output: real indexing, window functions instead of app logic, safe migrations, and performance diagnostics.

Postgres AI Agents Skills Meetup

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talk 2026 · DevConnect

DevConnect Databricks Meetup

Spoke at the DevConnect × Databricks community meetup on databases in the Databricks ecosystem.

Databricks Meetup DevConnect

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writing Jul 2026 · Neon

Lakebase Search: vector and BM25 on Neon

How Neon's storage-compute separation shapes two new Postgres extensions: lakebase_vector (RaBitQ + IVF for billion-scale ANN) and lakebase_text (BM25 with top-K pushdown), for hybrid retrieval in one database.

Neon Postgres Vector Search BM25

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talk 2026 · Seattle

Agentic AI Observability Meetup, Seattle

Spoke at the Agentic AI Observability meetup in Seattle on how the database layer shows up in agentic workflows and what to instrument for it.

Agentic AI Observability Meetup

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writing Dec 2025 · Neon

Practical Guide to Database Branching

Battle-tested Neon branching workflows for production, staging, per-developer dev, PR-based ephemeral branches, and point-in-time recovery, including how to handle PII with anonymized branches.

Neon Postgres Branching DevEx

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writing Nov 2025 · Neon

Promoting Postgres Changes Safely From Multiple Environments to Production

A snapshot-based promotion workflow for codegen platforms and any system that maintains many diverging Postgres environments: safe, versioned, and near-instant.

Neon Snapshots Workflows

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talk 2025 · Jamstack Conf

Jamstack Conf

Speaker at Jamstack Conf on Postgres for modern web architectures.

Jamstack Postgres Conference

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workshop Jan 2025 · Neon

Neon + AWS RDS: an AWS-hosted workshop

Announcing an AWS-hosted workshop showing how to keep production on RDS while running dev and test on Neon: Neon Twin sync, per-PR branches, and automation via GitHub Actions.

Neon AWS RDS Workshop CI/CD

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tutorial 2024 · Clerk

Securing Node.js Express APIs with Clerk and React

End-to-end walkthrough of Clerk's Express middleware (ClerkExpressWithAuth and ClerkExpressRequireAuth) with a React client that forwards JWTs to protected API routes.

Clerk Auth Node.js React

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writing Jan 2024 · PlanetScale

Working with Geospatial Features in MySQL

A tour of MySQL's spatial data types, WKT/WKB formats, and spatial functions, with practical examples for distance, radius, and containment queries.

MySQL Geospatial PlanetScale

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writing Dec 2023 · PlanetScale

What is HTAP?

OLTP, OLAP, and the hype around Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing: what the categories actually mean, the tradeoffs, and PlanetScale's take on staying focused on OLTP.

PlanetScale OLTP OLAP Architecture

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writing Mar 2023 · PlanetScale

How to Read MySQL EXPLAINs

Explaining EXPLAIN and EXPLAIN ANALYZE: join types, the EXTRA column, and a hands-on multi-column index example that drops a query from 299k rows scanned down to 1.

MySQL Performance PlanetScale

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writing Dec 2022 · PlanetScale

Temporal Workflows at Scale, Part 2: Sharding in Production

How PlanetScale customers shard Temporal databases in production with Vitess: vSchemas, MoveTables, xxhash vindexes on shard_id/range_hash, plus real Black Friday QPS numbers.

PlanetScale Temporal Sharding Vitess

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writing Jul 2022 · PlanetScale

Temporal Workflows at Scale with PlanetScale, Part 1

Introducing Temporal (workflows, activities, durability) and why PlanetScale's horizontally-sharded MySQL is a fit as the persistence layer without the operational tradeoffs of Cassandra.

PlanetScale Temporal MySQL

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