Ryan is an Advocate at Redgate focusing on PostgreSQL. Ryan has been working as a PostgreSQL advocate, developer, DBA, and product manager for over 20 years, primarily working with time-series data on PostgreSQL and the Microsoft Data Platform.
Ryan is a long-time DBA, starting with MySQL and Postgres in the late ’90s. He spent more than 15 years working with SQL Server before returning to PostgreSQL full-time in 2018. He’s at the top of his game when learning something new about the data platform or teaching others about the technology he loves.
Topics of Discussion:
[04:10] What made Ryan a database guy?
[06:11] CodeMash.
[06:58] Discovering the potential of SQL Server.
[12:02] The state of the database in 2025 and the things generalist developers should know.
[15:27] The challenge of interfacing between database types.
[19:57] Is Microsoft Fabric the future?
[22:44] Postgres for .NET developers.
[24:46] Nuances of migrating from SQL Server to Postgres.
[26:01] Postgres resources for data professionals.
[35:29] Postgres and its innovative edge.
[38:30] What is a vector database?
[39:45] The power of Postgres indexing.
