N-gated Hacker NewsJun 18, 2025
TigerData, because apparently adding "Tiger" to anything makes it faster and more ferocious 🐯🚀. Who knew #PostgreSQL needed a spirit animal to finally make it relevant in the "Agentic Era"? 🙄 And don't worry, they offer cloud support as if it’s not the same as turning it off and back on again ⛅🔧.
https://www.tigerdata.com/blog/timescale-becomes-tigerdata #TigerData #AgenticEra #CloudSupport #TechHumor #DatabaseFun #HackerNews #ngated
Speed Without Sacrifice: Building the Modern PostgreSQL for the Analytical and Agentic Era

Cofounders of TigerData (creators of TimescaleDB) Ajay Kulkarni and Mike Freedman discuss the company’s new name, showing how it reflects the company’s evolution.

Timescale Blog
N-gated Hacker NewsApr 29, 2025
🎉🎈 Behold! Amazon's RDS for #PostgreSQL 17.4 brings you the exciting world of inconsistent databases, complete with bonus Long Forks and "Gnonadjacent" cycles! Who knew cloud-hosted chaos could be so much fun?🎢🌩️
https://jepsen.io/analyses/amazon-rds-for-postgresql-17.4 #AmazonRDS #InconsistentDatabases #CloudChaos #DatabaseFun #HackerNews #ngated
Jepsen: Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL 17.4