The PostgreSQL community is once again bringing a dedicated track to SCaLE, and the call for papers for PostgreSQL@SCaLE24x closes on November 1, 2027. The event itself runs Thursday–Friday, April 1–2, 2027, at the Pasadena Convention Center, inside the larger SCaLE 24x conference (April 1–4). The program is aimed at people who work with Postgres in practice, mixing core contributors, long-time community leaders, and professionals running Postgres in production.
Key details from the announcement:
- Two-day format: a Thursday training day followed by a Friday of technical talks.
- Full-day PostgreSQL training on Thursday, led by experienced PostgreSQL educators and practitioners.
- Technical talks covering internals, performance, replication, reliability, tooling, and modern workloads including AI and cloud-native environments.
- Target audience: DBAs, backend, web, and full-stack developers, sysadmins and site reliability engineers, and platform, cloud-native, and Kubernetes practitioners.
- Community access: direct engagement with contributors and community leaders alongside the sessions.
- Location: Pasadena, California, as part of SCaLE 24x.
The scope spans foundational operations through advanced internals and large-scale deployments, so proposals can range from day-to-day operating advice to deep dives into how PostgreSQL works under the hood.
Why it matters to developers: this is one of the few regional events with a track focused specifically on PostgreSQL, and it pairs hands-on training with production-experience talks rather than marketing content. If you maintain Postgres-backed services, tune queries, or run clusters on Kubernetes, the sessions on performance, replication, and reliability map directly onto operational problems. If you have a lesson learned or an internal pattern worth sharing, the November 1, 2027 deadline is the near-term action item; after that, the focus shifts to April in Pasadena.
Source: https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/postgresqlscale24x-cfp-closing-soon-on-nov-1-2027-3363/