Seattle Postgres: AI Agent Skills and Change Event Streaming

An evening with two Postgres talks. Pizza provided; the user group also has a lending library of books and papers related to Postgres and databases. Talks: Change How You Vibecode with Postgres — Savannah Longoria, Senior Developer Advocate at Databricks, on the postgres-dba AI agent skill: portable packages of instructions, scripts, and resources that extend an AI’s database capabilities. Same prompts, dramatically different output: better indexing, window functions instead of app logic, safe migrations, replication setup, and performance diagnostics. From WAL to Kafka — Turning Postgres Changes into Event Streams — Narissa Tsuboi, software engineer at Read AI, on PostgreSQL logical replication, WAL decoding, replication slots, and the…