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Andrew Atkinson

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May 28, 2024

Top Five PostgreSQL Surprises from Rails Devs

At Sin City Ruby 2024 earlier this year, I presented a series of advanced PostgreSQL topics to Rails programmers. Afterwards, a number of people provided feedback on surprising or interesting things from the presentation.

PostgreSQL Ruby on Rails

May 21, 2024

🎙️ Ship It! Podcast — PostgreSQL with Andrew Atkinson

Recently I joined Justin Garrison and Autumn Nash for episode “FROM guests SELECT Andrew” of Ship It!, a Changelog podcast.

Podcasts Open Source PostgreSQL

May 17, 2024

RailsConf 2024 Conference — The Long Goodbye

Andrew Atkinson. RailsConf 2024. Photo: Alice Heart Photography

Ruby on Rails Podcasts Conferences Open Source

April 16, 2024

✂️ Use Cases for Merging and Splitting Partitions With Minimal Locking in PostgreSQL 17

This post looks at interesting new capabilities managing Partitioned Tables in the PostgreSQL 17 release candidate, expected for Fall 2024. The current major version is 16.

PostgreSQL Open Source

April 15, 2024

🎙️ Hacking Postgres 🐘 Podcast — Season 2, Ep. 1 Andrew Atkinson

Recently I joined Ry Walker, CEO of Tembo, as a guest on the Hacking Postgres podcast.

Podcasts PostgreSQL Open Source Ruby on Rails

April 10, 2024

📆 Free Workshop: 'Build High Performance Active Record Apps'

Are you a web application software engineer in the Minneapolis, MN area? Come and join us for two hours on the evening of April 23, 2024 in downtown Minneapolis, to meet, socialize, and learn.

Conferences Events

April 9, 2024

Compiling PostgreSQL on macOS To Test Documentation and Patches

This post covers my experience compiling and installing PostgreSQL from source code. Primarily I followed official instructions and this blog post Setup PostgreSQL development environment on MacOS. Once installed, we’ll look at how to test doc changes and patches from...

PostgreSQL

March 25, 2024

Sin City Ruby 2024

I’ve just returned from Las Vegas, NV where Sin City Ruby 2024 was held at the Tropicana hotel.

Ruby on Rails Conferences

March 7, 2024

Rails + Postgres Postgres.FM 086 — Extended blog post edition! 🎙️

I recently joined Michael and Nikolay as a guest on a favorite podcast of mine, postgres.fm, which has been a favorite going back to when it started in August 2022. Why’s that?

Ruby on Rails PostgreSQL Podcasts

March 5, 2024

'Rows Removed By Filter', Inspecting Pages, Buffer Cache — Part Two

We’re back for Part Two of diving into the “Rows Removed by Filter” information from the query planner.

PostgreSQL

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