Jimmy Angelakos: 100,000 Lines of C Later: pgSafe at PGDay UK 2026
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Yesterday I had the pleasure of speaking at PGDay UK 2026 in London, at the Cavendish Conference Centre. The talk was called 100,000 Lines of C Later: Re-architecting Enterprise Postgres Backups in Go . It was about the design of a Postgres backup tool: the rules such a tool has to obey, and what those rules look like when you rebuild the tool from scratch in Go, which is what pgSafe is. The slides are available here . It was very well received, the feedback afterwards was positive, and people were intrigued by the possibilities. For those who weren't there, here is what I talked about. What h
