Webinar on Postgres 18, a new video series on running Postgres in production, and Autotrader UK’s story of scaling developer autonomy with performance.
Hands on Postgres 18, New Video Series, & Platform Engineering at Autotrader UK
Hi there,
Welcome! We're back with the same great Postgres content, now in a fresh new design.
Our upcoming webinar on Sept. 25 explores the new PostgreSQL 18 release and what its changes, including the introduction of asynchronous I/O, mean for production workloads and performance.
We’re also excited to launch Postgres in Production, a new video series hosted by longtime Postgres community member Ryan Booz. Each episode tackles a real-world challenge engineers face when running Postgres at scale, starting with a deep dive into bloat and how to get it under control.
Finally, don’t miss our new customer story with Autotrader UK. We got to sit down with their platform engineering team to learn how they support hundreds of internal developers with an app delivery platform that enables autonomy without sacrificing Postgres performance - with the help of pganalyze!
As always, check out our product updates and full list of upcoming events at the end of this email.
All the best,
Lukas
Sept. 25 Webinar
Hands on Postgres 18: Async I/O, B-tree Skip Scan, UUIDv7, and More
With the release of PostgreSQL 18 around the corner (the first release candidate was released today), now is the time to discuss the significant changes that directly influence performance at scale.
From the introduction of asynchronous I/O, which changes how Postgres interacts with the disk both in the cloud and on-premise, to new planner optimizations that can make queries faster. Indexing capabilities also expand with B-tree Skip Scan, while the EXPLAIN command and statistics tables gain new information for tuning production workloads.
Postgres in Production: Episode 1 Different Kinds of Bloat and How to Fix It (Part 1)
We are excited to launch Postgres in Production, a new video series hosted by Ryan Booz, a longtime Postgres community member and Solutions Engineer at pganalyze. Each episode is designed to help you understand the real issues that come up in production environments and show you step by step how to address them.
Ryan will start with foundational concepts and then move into live demos on a real Postgres database, so you can apply what is discussed easily to your own database. The goal is to equip you with practical knowledge that helps you run Postgres reliably and efficiently at scale.
In Episode 1, Ryan covers one of the most common and persistent challenges: bloat. You will learn:
What bloat is and how it affects performance
How VACUUM maintains your tables over time
Which configuration settings matter most for efficiency
How to detect bloat using views like pg_stat_user_tables and extensions like pgstattuple
How Autotrader UK Became a Platform Engineering Leader with Google Cloud Postgres & pganalyze
From its early days as a print classifieds magazine to becoming a digital-first business serving millions, Autotrader UK has always embraced change. Their latest evolution is an ambitious internal app delivery platform on Google Cloud, where more than 300 developers run hundreds of production-grade Postgres databases without relying on a centralized DBA team.
The platform team knew this autonomy came with risk. Without the right guardrails, issues like bloat, unexpected autovacuum behavior, and query regressions could quietly erode performance. By weaving pganalyze directly into their delivery platform, they gave every developer the visibility and confidence to solve performance problems at the source, turning what used to be black box mysteries into actionable insights.
Read how Autotrader UK cut critical imports from nearly a week to under 24 hours, scaled developer ownership safely, and built a model for platform engineering that keeps Postgres fast and reliable at scale.
The fall conference season is here, and the pganalyze team will be out in full force. Don't forget the Postgres for All virtual meetup next week, where we'll discuss the new pg_stat_plan extension.
Additionally, we'll be at PGConf NYC (Sept. 29 – Oct. 1), quickly followed by PGConf EU in Riga (Oct. 21-24), where we'll have a booth and several talks at both. After that, join us at the PASS Data Community Summit in Seattle (Nov. 17 – 21) for more conversations and a pre-conference workshop.
