Denis Magda

Denis Magda is a software engineer who started his career at Sun Microsystems and Oracle, working on the Java platform and leading one of the Java development teams. After mastering Java from the inside, he ventured into the world of Postgres and other databases, where he has stayed ever since.

books by Denis Magda

Just Use Postgres!

  • November 2025
  • ISBN 9781633435698
  • 400 pages
  • printed in black & white
  • available in Korean, Russian
print book available Nov 24, 2025
ePub + liveBook available Nov 24, 2025

Just Use Postgres! covers recipes for using Postgres in dozens of applications normally reserved for single-purpose databases. Written for busy application developers, each chapter explores a different use case illuminating the breadth and depth of Postgres’s capabilities. Along the way, you’ll also meet an incredible ecosystem of Postgres extensions like pgvector, PostGIS, pgmq, and TimescaleDB. You’ll be amazed at everything you can accomplish with Postgres!