SIGNAL//SYNTH
Software Engineering

Scaling Time-Series Workloads on Postgres

aired Sep 22, 2026 · 48.0m
Signal
86.3/ 100
Essential
confidence 0.99
Orig59.9
Actn100.0
Dens100.0
Dpth100.0
Clty66.6
Summary

Many real-world processes produce data as a continuous stream rather than as isolated records. Sensor readings, financial markets, and application telemetry all generate data this way.

Why listen

It goes beyond the title with direct discussion of data, like, well, including: Sensor readings, financial markets, and application telemetry all generate data this way.

Key takeaways
  1. 01This lets a single PostgreSQL-based system handle both transactional and analytical workloads without splitting data across multiple tools
  2. 02In this episode, Brandon joins Kevin Ball to discuss why time series data breaks conventional databases, how hyper tables and hyper core scale Postgres, zero copy database forking
  3. 03I was doing most of the leadership
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