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⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Ratings
- Amazon: 4.8, 10 ratings, 8 reviews
- Goodreads: 4.80, 20 ratings, 6 reviews
- The StoryGraph: 5.0, 1 rating
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Praise Quotes
Halfway through 'High Performance PostgreSQL for Rails' by @andatki.
— Andrew Mason (@andrewmcodes) January 3, 2024
As a senior Rails dev, it's rare to find a book that challenges and excites me like this one did. Perfect for those who feel they've plateaued.
If you're a #rails developer, don't sleep on this!! 🔥🔥🔥 https://t.co/lRDR46skNj
📚 Had a chance to take an early peek at "High Performance PostgreSQL for Rails" by @andatki (thanks again for that!), and it looks really great. Lots of useful advice not only for Rails folks, but for Postgres practitioners at large.https://t.co/p6LrOwFYqa https://t.co/bWhOk450fH pic.twitter.com/dFR0yTNpUY
— Gunnar Morling 🌍 (@gunnarmorling) December 29, 2023
Congratulations @andatki . High Performance PostgreSQL for Rails is really comprehensive. Great contribution. https://t.co/1gvIkv65hF
— Johann SchleierSmith (@jssmith) December 23, 2023
Two very good Ruby on Rails books released today:@palkan_tula's Layered Design for Ruby on Rails Applications
— Jason Charnes (@jmcharnes) August 31, 2023
and@andatki's High Performance PostgreSQL for Rails
I can't recommend these enough!https://t.co/gxg7AVm51Mhttps://t.co/L343cmUHrJ
Great week for #Rails books! 🛤️
— Chris Oliver (@excid3) August 31, 2023
Just picked up @palkan_tula's Layered Design for Ruby on Rails Applications and @andatki's High Performance PostgreSQL for Rails book.
Perfect timing for some traveling this weekend.
I think https://t.co/HQhb03ZkKK by @andatki is a "game-upgrader" for #Rails devs using #PostgreSQL. It covers so much ranging from ActiveRecord, SQL, bulk data, cursors, sharding, replication, partitioning, FTS...
— Mohit Sindhwani (onghu@ruby.social) (@onghu) November 25, 2023
Want Rails to scale? Gotta leverage the DB👍#programming
“If you use Rails and Postgres, this book is required reading.
— Andrew Atkinson (@andatki) June 16, 2024
If you use Postgres and a different framework, you will still get a ton of value out of it. Every section goes deep.”
Thank you @jpcamara! 🙌#postgresql #rubyonrails @pragprog https://t.co/IZRUnwHv8v
https://t.co/00jTI6GLBu by @andatki
— Franck Pachot (@FranckPachot) July 9, 2024
You will be really good at PostgreSQL and Rails at the same time
Praise and Reviews
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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Community Links
- Kevin Murphy wrote about the book in 2023 Year-End Review
- Efficient Database Queries in Rails: A Practical Approach
- Top Five PostgreSQL Surprises from Rails Developers, Medium, 70 claps
- New This Week: High Performance PostgreSQL for Rails
Social Media Stats
- Print availability announcement Tweet/X 2024 33K views
- Beta announcement Tweet/X 2023 40K views
- Print unboxing Tweet/X 2024 5K views, 110 faves
- LinkedIn Unboxing 2024 23K impressions, 380 reactions
- Reddit r/rails High Performance PostgreSQL for Rails, in print, 60 upvotes, 25 comments
- Reddit r/rails Upcoming Book Launch: High Performance PostgreSQL for Rails, 75 upvotes, 20 comments
- Ruby Weekly #711 Mention
Author Profiles and Interviews
- PostgreSQL Person of the Week
- Scaling Rails & Postgres to Millions of Users at Microsoft: Lessons & Takeaways
- Mastering PostgreSQL for Rails: An Interview with Andy Atkinson
- A Passion for PostgreSQL Chat with Andrew Atkinson
- Mention from University of Minnesota
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Upcoming Appearances
- July 8-10, 2025 - RailsConf 2025
Book Events and Past Appearances
- November 4-8, 2024 - PASS Data Community Summit 2024
- September 26-27, 2024 - Rails World 2024
- 2024 August: Presented at Madison+ Ruby
- 2024 July: Shipping from major retailers like Amazon.com, including being the #1 Best Seller in the Ruby Programming category
- 2024 June: In Print!
- 2024 Apr: POSETTE 2024
- 2024 Apr: RailsConf 2024
- 2024 Apr: PGDay Chicago 2024
- 2024 Mar: Sin City Ruby
- 2023 Dec: Beta content complete
- 2023 Sep: Beta Launch!
- 2023 Aug: SFPUG Partitioning Presentation
- 2023 Jun: Technical Review (first half) edits completed.
- 2023 Spring: Publication Review completed. Technical Review (first half) started.
- 2023 Winter: First Draft completed. PGDay Chicago 2023.
- 2022: Signed Book Deal with Pragmatic Programmers
- 2022: Presented at RailsConf 2022
- 2021: Presented at PGConf NYC 2021
