Azure HorizonDB Rewrites Microsoft's Postgres Endgame
What Azure HorizonDB Signals About Microsoft’s Postgres Strategy
Frank Garofalo
Cloud Solutions Architect & Data Engineering leader at Microsoft. I build production AI, data, and home-lab systems — Azure, Fabric, Copilot, Proxmox/Ceph — and write about what actually works. New posts weekly.
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