Building Postgres services on Azure with Charles Feddersen

From Talking Postgres with Claire Giordano by Microsoft

March 20, 2026 · 1h 10m · Episode 37

About this episode

In this episode, Charles Feddersen discusses building Postgres services on Azure and his journey in the data layer.

Why does SQL feel so approachable to some developers, and why do some of them end up spending their careers in the data layer? In Episode 37 of Talking Postgres, Charles Feddersen , who leads product for Postgres at Microsoft, joins Claire to talk about building Postgres services on Azure. We explore his path from classic ASP apps on Microsoft Access to distributed Postgres with Citus, the moment he installed pgAdmin and got pulled deeper into Postgres, and what it takes to build for the many different ways people rely on Postgres today—from Flexible Server and Azure HorizonDB to developer tooling—and why it’s important to support the upstream Postgres open source project. Previously on Talking Postgres: Ep 22: Leading engineering for Postgres on Azure with Affan Dar: https://talkingpostgres.com/episodes/leading-engineering-for-postgres-on-azure-with-affan-dar Ep29: How I got started leading database teams with Shireesh Thota https://talkingpostgres.com/episodes/how-i-got-started-leading-database-teams-with-shireesh-thota Links mentioned in this episode: Video of CMUDB talk: HorizonDB: Co‑Designing PostgreSQL and Azure for Cloud‑Native OLTP , by Adam Prout Video of talk: Azure…

People in this episode

Host: Claire Giordano

Guest: Charles Feddersen

Topics covered

Postgres services
Azure
data layer
developer tooling
open source
cloud-native

Keywords

Postgres
Azure
pgAdmin
Citus
open source
developer tools
cloud-native

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Microsoft

Products: Postgres, pgAdmin, Azure HorizonDB, Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server

Books & works: HorizonDB: Co‑Designing PostgreSQL and Azure for Cloud‑Native OLTP, Azure HorizonDB: Deep Dive into a New Enterprise-Scale PostgreSQL