pgsonify: Hearing PostgreSQL Health as Elephant Sounds
pgsonify is an experimental MIT-licensed tool that sonifies PostgreSQL health metrics as real elephant recordings. How it maps stats views to sound.
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Founder, CortexRidge
15+ years leading database engineering teams. Built and operated PostgreSQL platforms across AWS, Oracle (OCI PostgreSQL), Tessell, OpenSCG, and EnterpriseDB. Author of the PL/pgSQL book. Now building CortexBolt at CortexRidge.
pgsonify is an experimental MIT-licensed tool that sonifies PostgreSQL health metrics as real elephant recordings. How it maps stats views to sound.
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