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Introduction Much of the time taken processing HTTP requests in web apps is processing SQL queries. To minimize that, we want to avoid unnecessary or duplicate queries, and generally perform as few queries as possible.
Introduction If you’ve created web apps with relational databases and ORMs like Active Record (part of Ruby on Rails), you’ve probably experienced database performance problems after a certain size of data and query volume.
Introduction In this post, we’ll cover a way to generate short, alphanumeric, pseudo random identifiers using native Postgres tactics.
Intro Back in 2022, we covered how to log database query generation information from a web app using pg_stat_statements for Postgres. https://andyatkinson.com/blog/2022/10/07/pgsqlphriday-2-truths-lie
Back in November, I met with Claire Giordano, host of the Talking Postgres podcast, who asked a ton of great questions about my experience writing a Postgres book aimed at Ruby on Rails web developers.
About 10 years ago I wrote a post PostgreSQL for the Busy MySQL Developer, as part of switching from MySQL to Postgres for my personal and professional projects wherever I could.
It’s time for a new Postgres release! PostgreSQL 17 shipped a few weeks ago, with lots of new features to explore.
This is Part 1 of my recap of Rails World 2024, a phrenetic two-day conference in Toronto, Canada, September 2024, with 1000+ attendees.
Solid Cache is a relatively new cache framework that’s available as a Ruby gem for Ruby on Rails. In the next major version of Rails, version 8, it’s becoming the default cache backend.
Why Solid Queue? Background jobs are commonly used in Ruby on Rails apps to perform any work possible outside of an HTTP request. A classic example is sending an email notification. Sending email from a background job places the latency...