Bruce Momjian
Bruce Momjian is co-founder and core team member of the PostgreSQL Global Development Group, and has worked on PostgreSQL since 1996. He has been employed by EDB since 2006. He has spoken at many international open-source conferences and is the author of PostgreSQL: Introduction and Concepts, published by Addison-Wesley. Prior to his involvement with PostgreSQL, Bruce worked as a consultant, developing custom database applications for some of the world's largest law firms. As an academic, Bruce holds a Masters in Education, an honorary doctorate, was a high school computer science teacher, and lectures internationally.
Sessions
This presentation explains how open source software can live for a very long time, and covers the differences between proprietary and open source software life cycles. It also covers the increased adoption of open source, and many of the ways that Postgres is innovating to continue to be relevant.
Postgres has the unique ability to act as a powerful data aggregator in many data centers. This talk shows how Postgres's extensibility, access to foreign data sources, and ability to handle NoSQL-like and data warehousing workloads gives it unmatched capabilities to function in this role.
Large language models are good at generating text, but can't easily report discrete, dynamic, and always-accurate results. They also can't take external actions. The model context protocol (MCP) has become the standard way for generative AI models to access external data and take external actions. This talk explains the purpose of MCPs, how they are used, and shows examples of database and non-database MCP servers.