Coding with Lewis (23.06.2026)
The most critical database on the internet is maintained by a “pickup team” of volunteers with no CEO, no owner, and no clear successor. This is the 30-year story of how Postgres outlasted every database that tried to kill it — and the unanswered question of who carries it forward.
00:00 The Software Nobody Owns
00:34 Codd, Stonebreaker, and the Birth of Ingres
03:00 The Postgres Rewrite
05:12 Sponsor — Supabase
06:18 Postgres 95 and the Berkeley Handoff
08:24 The Volunteers Who Saved It
14:13 Surviving NoSQL and the Cloud Era
19:00 pgvector, AI, and the Question of Succession