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Andrew Atkinson

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November 16, 2023

Teach Kelvin Your Thing (TKYT) — High Performance PostgreSQL for Rails 🖥️

Recently I met Kelvin Omereshone, based in Nigeria, for a session on his show Teach Kelvin Your Thing (TKYT). Here’s the description of the show:

Podcasts Open Source PostgreSQL Ruby on Rails

November 1, 2023

PostgreSQL IO Visibility: #wehack PostgreSQL Internals and pg_stat_io

This week I’m participating in a virtual social learning experiment run by Phil Eaton / https://twitter.com/eatonphil, called “#wehack PostgreSQL Internals”.

Open Source PostgreSQL

October 10, 2023

PGConf NYC 2023 Recap 🐘

Just got back from the whirlwind 🌪️ of PGConf NYC 2023 in Midtown Manhattan.🗽

Conferences Open Source PostgreSQL Events

August 28, 2023

SaaS for Developers with Gwen Shapira — Postgres, Performance and Rails with Andrew Atkinson 🎙️

A few months ago I joined the SaaS Developer Community to learn more about challenges SaaS developers face.

Podcasts Ruby on Rails Open Source PostgreSQL

August 22, 2023

Podcast: Code and the Coding Coders who Code it! Episode 27 Andrew Atkinson 🎙️

I had the chance to join Drew Bragg on his podcast “Code and the Coding Coders who Code It” and we had a great conversation.

Podcasts PostgreSQL Ruby on Rails Open Source

August 17, 2023

Presenting 'Partitioning Billions of Rows' at SFPUG August 2023

On August 8, 2023 I had the chance to present to the San Francisco Bay Area PostgreSQL User Group (SFPUG) on our case study for a recent online table partitioning migration. The main tools we used were PostgreSQL 13 and...

PostgreSQL Rails Open Source Books

August 4, 2023

PGSQL Phriday #011 — Sharding and Partitioning

This month’s PGSQL Phriday #011 prompts bloggers to write about Sharding and Partitioning in PostgreSQL.

PostgreSQL Rails Open Source

July 31, 2023

Slow & Steady — Database Constraints with Andrew Atkinson 🎙️

Benedikt Deicke (co-founder of UserList) recently hosted me on the Slow & Steady podcast (co-hosted by Benedicte Raae). Our main topic was Database Constraints, why they’re useful and how to use them.

PostgreSQL Rails Ruby Podcasts

July 28, 2023

PostgreSQL Table Partitioning Primary Keys — The Reckoning — Part 2 of 2

In Part 2 of this 2 part PostgreSQL 🐘 Table Partitioning series, we’ll focus on how we modified the Primary Key online for a large partitioned table. This is a disruptive operation so we had to use some tricks to...

PostgreSQL Open Source

July 28, 2023

Code With Jason 190 — PostgreSQL and Sin City Ruby 🎙️

I joined Jason Swett recently on his podcast and had a great time. The podcast topic was PostgreSQL Table Partitioning and how developers can use it. We also discussed the 2024 edition of Sin City Ruby, a conference Jason organizes...

PostgreSQL Rails Podcasts

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