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We’re about 1/3 through this in our engineering book club, and the team is really liking it. Great pacing and accessible for folks at different levels of PostgreSQL experience. - Mike Leone, VP of Engineering at Wealthbox

I would recommend this book as a primer on PG performance in the context of Rails deployments as required reading material for most engineering teams. - Simon Chiu

The most informative and knowledge dense book I have ever read on understanding database performance, bottlenecks, and solutions. - Sean Szurko

It’s a helpful companion into the depths of Postgres functionality. If you’re looking to step out of the comfort of a Rails console and into a psql console, I recommend taking this with you. - Kevin Murphy

A book with this information would’ve allowed me to shortcut several years off of learning Postgres the hard way. - Dave Copeland

If you are a Rails engineer who always wanted to understand how to have a greater impact on your work through taking command of your database, this is the book for you! - Daniel Kaczmarczyk

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