PostgreSQL 17: JSON_TABLE(), MERGE with RETURNING, and Updatable Views
It’s time for a new Postgres release! PostgreSQL 17 shipped a few weeks ago, with lots of new features to explore.
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Rails World 2024 Conference Recap
This is Part 1 of my recap of Rails World 2024, a phrenetic two-day conference in Toronto, Canada, September 2024, with 1000+ attendees.
Solid Cache for Rails and PostgreSQL
Solid Cache is a relatively new cache framework that’s available as a Ruby gem for Ruby on Rails. In the next major version of Rails, version 8, it’s becoming the default cache backend.
Trying out Solid Queue and Mission Control with PostgreSQL
Why Solid Queue? Background jobs are commonly used in Ruby on Rails apps to perform any work possible outside of an HTTP request. A classic example is sending an email notification. Sending email from a background job places the latency...
Shrinking Big PostgreSQL tables: Copy-Swap-Drop
In this post, you’ll learn a recipe that you can use to “shrink” a large table. This is a good fit when only a portion of the data is accessed, the big table has become unwieldy, and you don’t want...
Madison+ Ruby 2024 Conference Recap
Welcome to Madison Madison+ Ruby 2024 was held August 1st & 2nd in Madison, WI, following a 5 year hiatus. Despite being in the Midwest and being a smaller regional conference, attendees came in from all over the US and...
📚 Readers get their copies of "High Performance PostgreSQL for Rails"
Readers are sharing that they’ve received their copies of the book on social media. I love to see these.
Wait a minute! — PostgreSQL extension pg_wait_sampling
PostgreSQL uses a complex system of locks to balance concurrent operations and data consistency, across many transactions. Those intricacies are beyond the scope of this post. Here we want to specifically look at queries that are waiting, whether on locks...
You make a good point! — PostgreSQL Savepoints
This post will look at the basics of PostgreSQL Savepoints within a Transaction.
SaaS on Rails on PostgreSQL — POSETTE 2024
In this talk attendees will learn how Ruby on Rails and PostgreSQL can be used to create scalable SaaS applications, focusing on schema and query design, and leveraging database capabilities.