Rust NYC: Building a full-text search Postgres extension in Rust

For our fifth meetup of 2025, we're extremely excited to have Philippe Noël talking about Building a full-text search Postgres extension in Rust! Learn about how ParadeDB brings Elasticsearch-quality text search to Postgres and the kinds of challenges they've solved along the way.

Philippe is CEO at ParadeDB, which is a modern Elasticsearch alternative built on Postgres. It's built for real-time, update-heavy workloads. It provides search and analytics for Postgres with zero ETL.

He can be found on Twitter as @philippemnoel and on BlueSky as [philippenoel.bsky.social](https://bsky.app/profile/philippemnoel.bsky.social).

We'll be at Materialize and on Tuesday! Doors open at 6:30pm to give people plenty of time to grab pizza and socialize, and then the talk starts at 7:30!

It should be a good time! Hope to see you there!

We're extremely excited to announce that Lawrence Harvey is Rust NYC's official recruitment partner sponsor!

The space was generously sponsored by Materialize, which is a database providing incrementally updated materialized views with strong consistency. Hate waiting for your dashboards to load? Use Materialize.