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My aspirational goal is to be in a position to retire early and hack on Postgres full-time, it’s so interesting. It has networking, storage, data, algorithms et
by wkoszek 3y ago
My aspirational goal is to be in a position to retire early and hack on Postgres full-time, it’s so interesting. It has networking, storage, data, algorithms etc.
C is less of a problem tbh. Postgres has good code style and its pretty consistent. The complexity of the internals is, and having a small community may infer the speed in which people help you.
- teaearlgraycold 3y agoWe should have an NSF for FOSS contributions
- nikita 3y agoYou can work full time for someone as a Postgres committer.
- 1500100900 3y agoUnless you're Tom, you'll have to work on tickets assigned to you by some manager.
- samaysharma 3y agoThat's not really true any more. I personally know several Postgres contributors / committers who have a very high amount of control on what projects they work on.