PGDay UK2026

Dive into a session about the newly-launched Azure HorizonDB service with its shared storage architecture. A service that organisations increasingly require - for greater scalability, performance, and resilience to support modern workloads. In this session, you'll get a chance to explore Azure HorizonDB architecture, Microsoft's new Postgres database service that decouples storage and compute, designed for modern enterprise applications. Learn more about the architectural principles behind Azure HorizonDB, including shared storage, elastic scale-out compute, and get to know how these technologies help address the challenges that traditional PostgreSQL architecture faces when scaling workloads. You will gain insights into emerging database architectures, practical considerations for scaling PostgreSQL applications, and Microsoft's vision for the future of PostgreSQL in the cloud.