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Software Engineer, Postgres Specialist, Author

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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 Ruby on 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 Ruby on 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 Ruby on 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 Ruby on Rails Podcasts

July 27, 2023

PostgreSQL Table Partitioning — Growing the Practice — Part 1 of 2

Hello! We recently faced challenges in working with a large table, performing operations, and query performance had worsened a lot.

PostgreSQL Open Source

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