Episode 486: High Performance PostgreSQL for Rails with Andrew Atkinson

If you love taking about databases, this is the episode for you. Ahead of the launch of his new book, High Performance PostgreSQL for Rails, Andrew Atkinson joined the show with special guest co-host, Pat Bair, to talk about why he wrote a book, why he focused on PostgreSQL and his favorite feature from the upcoming 7.1 release.

Show Notes:

Landing page and newsletter signup for the book “High Performance PostgreSQL for Rails”

Andrew's Tweet Announcing Beta for the Book

Andrew's Personal blog on Postgres/Rails/general topics

Rideshare Rails API app used for book examples/exercises

Pg_scripts repo

Andrew’s Postgres and Rails presentations and podcast appearances on YouTube

Andrew Atkinson (@andatki) / X

Andrew on GitHub

Pat on Github

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