Command Prompt, Inc.

06/04/2026

Can AI actually help teams understand their data faster? Or does it just create another layer between people and the business?

In this T3D Session, MotherDuck Founder & CEO Jordan Tigani talks about how AI agents are starting to explore databases more like analysts by testing queries, inspecting schemas, and iterating toward answers instead of generating a single SQL statement.

The conversation also pushes into the harder part: context. Customer behavior, usage patterns, and operational understanding still require people who know what they’re actually looking at.

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06/03/2026

What kinds of PostgreSQL conversations are worth having right now?
The ones grounded in real systems, real constraints, and real production experience.
PG DATA 2026 is bringing together DBAs, developers, and infrastructure teams for two days of technical PostgreSQL discussions in Chicago, from deep dives into internals to practical lessons learned operating at scale.
At Command Prompt, this is the side of the community we care deeply about. People share knowledge that comes from building, fixing, scaling, and supporting production environments every day.
Proud to sponsor PG DATA 2026.
Get your tickets: https://2026.pg-data.org/

06/03/2026

Have you been looking for a more grounded conversation about AI?
“To AI or Not to AI” is this week, June 10 at 1pm ET.
Join the Postgres Conference community for a live Q&A focused on real experiences, real questions, and practical perspectives.
Register: https://postgresconf.org/conferences/postgresworld_webinars_2026/tickets

06/02/2026

Are your PostgreSQL performance problems actually visible? Or are the settings you need still turned off?

In this T3D Session, Ryan Booz from pganalyze talks about one of the most common frustrations in Postgres operations: critical monitoring and logging capabilities that many teams only discover after production issues begin.

The conversation digs into pg_stat_statements, conservative defaults, auto-tuning, and the gap between developing PostgreSQL and running it in the real world.

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06/02/2026

One of our DBAs Justin Graf has been watching the recent supply chain attack wave closely and wrote up his perspective.

The short version: modern software runs on blind trust, and that trust is getting exploited.

The Laravel-Lang incident showed that version pinning offered no protection when the tags themselves were rewritten. SBOMs and lock files don’t help if the source is compromised.

His starting point: audit your dependency chains and fork critical dependencies to a private repo you control.

Read here: https://www.commandprompt.com/blog/is-trust-gone-supply-chain-attacks/

Is Trust Gone? Has the supply chain attacks eroded the trust we have in public repositories

06/01/2026

What do you get when you bring together people who actually run PostgreSQL systems every day?
Better conversations.
PG DATA 2026 is focused on the real work behind Postgres, architecture decisions, database internals, operational lessons, scaling challenges, and the tradeoffs teams face once systems are live and growing.
That’s the kind of community Command Prompt has always believed in supporting.
We’re proud to sponsor this year’s event and spend time with the engineers, DBAs, and developers pushing PostgreSQL forward in production environments every day.
June 4-5 in Chicago at Loyola University Water Tower Campus.
Get your tickets: https://2026.pg-data.org/

05/28/2026

Why does accessing a single application at work require so much infrastructure?

For the past 20 years, companies have taken a consumer web browser and built layers around it, proxies, VPNs, DLP, and more, just to make it work in an enterprise environment.

The result is a stack that protects the organization, but often comes at the cost of user experience.

Bradon Rogers, Chief Customer Officer at Island, explains why the issue isn’t just complexity, it’s where control lives. And what changes when the browser itself becomes the control point.

Watch the full conversation: https://youtu.be/mYvFS5bR6ZU

05/26/2026

Does every AI conversation lately feel either overly optimistic or completely cynical?
Join “To AI or Not to AI” on June 10 at 1pm ET.
A practical discussion with the Postgres Conference community about what people are actually seeing in their work.
Register: https://postgresconf.org/conferences/postgresworld_webinars_2026/tickets

05/25/2026

How much of your day is intentional, and how much is just reaction?
In this episode of Health and Tech, Amanda Nystrom and JD explore the difference between threat-based stress and challenge-based stress, and why so many people slowly get stuck operating in survival mode without realizing it.
The conversation moves through chronic stress, burnout, mindfulness, reactive thinking, and the strange discomfort that comes with sitting alone with your own thoughts in a world built around constant stimulation. Amanda also connects it back to system performance in a way that will probably feel familiar to anyone in tech: too many tabs open for too long eventually slow everything down.

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05/21/2026

Why are you still working around a 32-bit limit in a modern database?

In high-volume Postgres systems, transaction IDs (XIDs) eventually wrap around. That forces ongoing processes like freezing, constantly running in the background and consuming resources as your system scales.

Justin Graf, DBA at Command Prompt, explains why this isn’t a tuning issue and why blaming vacuum misses the point. The real problem is a design constraint that’s been around for decades.

Most improvements have made this easier to manage, but they haven’t removed the underlying limitation.

Watch the full conversation: https://youtu.be/kvFhtttkmjU

Learn more about autovacuum failures in Justin's blog series and white paper which you can find here: https://www.commandprompt.com/blog/tag/autovacuum-failure-blog-series/