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OpenSource DB – August'25 Bulletin
Welcome to the August edition of the OpenSource DB Bulletin!
📅 August Highlights
If there’s one word for August at OpenSource DB, it’s intense!
The whole OSDB team was meticulously working on Hyderabad Postgres Days 2025 — planning, designing, and executing every detail with full energy. From registrations, speaker coordination, and sponsor booths to creatives, lanyards, flyers, brochures, banners, and food arrangements — the entire team was all in. And it paid off — the event was a smashing success! 🎉
And that’s not all — we’ve also revamped our website! 🌐
👉 New look, new style — check out the refreshed version here: opensource-db.com
Here’s a look back at a packed August across our community 👇
📌 PWI Virtual Summit – August 6
The Q3 PWI Virtual Summit was a huge success!
A big thank you to everyone who joined us and made it an unforgettable experience.
✨ Special shoutout to our incredible speakers — Lahari, Keerthi, Emma, Tarunika, and Taticherla Begum — for sharing their expertise and inspiring the community!
📌 CYBERTEC Webinar – August 7
CYBERTEC hosted its 13th webinar: “Practical Implementation of CYBERTEC DataLake AI by Scalefield”. The session showcased how to build AI-powered analytics pipelines with PostgreSQL, featuring real-world case studies from Scalefield.
📌 KubeCon – August 6–7
Our DevOps team attended KubeCon, exploring the latest in Kubernetes, DevSecOps, observability, and platform engineering — bringing back valuable insights for our projects.
📌 Hyderabad Postgres Days 2025 – August 21–22
What an incredible event! With 200+ tickets sold and a stellar lineup of speakers, PGDays Hyderabad 2025 was buzzing with energy, learning, and true community spirit.
🧡 A heartfelt thank you to our sponsors — Aiven, Microsoft, AWS, CYBERTEC, and OpenSource DB (proud contributor and sponsor) — for making this event possible.
📌 August 30
- PWI Upskill Program (H2 batch) – successfully kicked off, empowering the PostgreSQL community with new skills and career growth opportunities.
📌 August 30
- Pre-Sales Collective Meetup – an engaging session on cloud-native innovations and PostgreSQL in the cloud.
Fresh on the blog
We’ve published a slew of insightful, practical, and founder-focused posts this month:
PostgreSQL Deep Dives
- PostgreSQL Index Testing with HypoPG extension — Shameer Bhupathi / Aug 6, 2025 – Link
- Best Practices for WAL Archiving: Compression, Cleanup & Retention — Keerthi Seetha / Aug 13, 2025 Link
- Logical Decoding and Logical Replication in PostgreSQL — Keerthi Seetha / Aug 20, 2025 Link
- Advanced Logical Replication in PostgreSQL: Conflict Handling, Tuning & Real-World Patterns —Keerthi Seetha/ Aug 29, 2025 Link
🎨 Visual PostgreSQL — By Aarti
🎯 Architecting August — by Praveena Sivasankar
- Designing Startup Systems That Scale: Hiring, Tech, Culture, Ops / Aug 1, 2025 Link
- The Founder’s Dilemma: Familiar vs Fit-for-Future / Aug 8, 2025 Link
- Setting Up Repeatable Processes: The Freedom to Focus on What Matters / Aug 15, 2025 Link
- Building Feedback Loops Across Teams for Faster Learning and Iteration / Aug 29, 2025 – Link
🔜 What’s Coming Up in September
September 4 – PGDay Austria
OpenSource DB is proud to be a Silver Sponsor!
Hari Kiran will present “Past, Present, and Future: Logical Decoding and Replication in PostgreSQL” alongside Sovenath — tracing PostgreSQL’s journey from pglogical to powerful native replication features.
September 20–21 – IndiaFOSS 2025 (Bengaluru, NIMHANS Convention Centre)
We’re excited to be a Gold Sponsor at India’s largest FOSS gathering. Don’t miss our sessions and contributions at this landmark event.
September 27 – PgVizag Meetup #3
The Vizag Postgres community is back for its 3rd meetup! Expect insightful talks, networking, and knowledge-sharing with PostgreSQL enthusiasts from the region.
📢 Call for Papers (CFP): pgvizag.in/cfp | 🎟️ Registrations: pgvizag.in/registration
Let’s carry this momentum into September!
🔗 Stay updated → https://opensource-db.com
Keep watching this space — great things ahead!