When Postgres is Enough: Postgres as a Coordinator - Michael Cooper

What does it take to use PostgreSQL as a coordinator for application work? In this PostgresWorld webinar, Michael Cooper, founder of AG Ledger, shares how supporting customer-hosted deployments led him to simplify his stack around PostgreSQL and pg-boss. He explains why he moved away from Valkey and BullMQ, bringing job queues and application state into Postgres while reducing the dependencies customers would need to manage. The talk covers pg-boss worker configuration, queue retention and autovacuum, and the connection management this approach requires. Michael also discusses building a service for AI agents with unpredictable traffic patterns, how AI-assisted coding helped him work directly with SQL, and what he observed during load testing under constrained conditions. Learn more at https://agledger.ai. 🔗 Michael Cooper: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaeldc/