High Performance PostgreSQL for Rails
reliable, scalable, maintainable database applications
$138.49
- Paperback
420 pages
- Release Date
5 September 2024
Summary
Turbocharge Your Rails Apps with High-Performance PostgreSQL
Build faster, more reliable Rails applications by leveraging the advanced capabilities of PostgreSQL and Active Record to conquer your application’s scaling and growth challenges. Acquire the expertise to manage multi-terabyte databases and navigate complex Active Record, SQL, and specialized indexes.
Develop your skills using PostgreSQL on your laptop and seamlessly transition them to production, maintaining synch…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9798888650387 |
|---|---|
| Author: | Andrew Atkinson |
| Publisher: | Pragmatic Bookshelf |
| Imprint: | Pragmatic Bookshelf |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 420 |
| Release Date: | 5 September 2024 |
| Weight: | 846g |
| Dimensions: | 235mm x 190mm |
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Critics Review
Wow, what an incredible learning experience! This book will provide Rails developers with the knowledge and confidence to adeptly manage projects as their data scales. The book not only instills best practices but also equips developers to counter the instinctive reactions advocating for a transition to microservices, serverless architectures, or alternative technologies like MongoDB, Kafka, and more. It’s a valuable resource that not only addresses performance challenges but empowers developers to make informed decisions about their application architecture in the face of growing data demands.
—Daniela Baron, Software Engineer
This book is the missing link. Andrew has written the most valuable resource for Rails application developers looking to optimize database performance and scale with ease.—Nate Berkopec, Ruby on Rails performance consultant
This is the PostgreSQL manual for Ruby on Rails we’ve been missing. Andrew’s combined PostgreSQL and Rails knowledge in this book will give you more confidence working with SQL and Active Record. This is without a doubt one of my recommended resources moving forward.—Jason Charnes, Staff Software Developer, Co-Host of the Remote Ruby podcast
I love that this book lives in two worlds, Rails and Postgres, which are tightly coupled together when running a production application, but are typically separated in terms of knowledge communities. This book brings together a body of knowledge from two different focus areas, Rails and Postgres, to strengthen the application and data relationship. This book is a key resource for anyone running Rails in production at scale.—Elizabeth Christensen, Crunchy Data
A book with this information in it would’ve allowed me to shortcut several years off of learning Postgres the hard way.—David Bryant Copeland
A veritable PostgreSQL “cheat sheet” for the busy application developer, I wish this book existed earlier. Filled front to back with practical, useful examples of common database problems and their solutions, it serves as a killer resource for any dev interested in solving pressing, challenging PostgreSQL problems they may face.—Brian Davis
With this book Andrew has demystified DBA concepts so you can go beyond Rails and into PostgreSQL, when scaling starts to hit. The ideas and recommendations on building a performance database, optimizing with bulk upserts, and ensuring data integrity will be particularly handy to gain insight into how your app’s data is evolving. The book’s expert advice is explained clearly throughout —it’s useful to any Rails developer that’s wondering if they need to pay their PaaS more, or if there’s an alternative through gaining more insight into how their app is scaling.
—Kasper Timm Hansen, ex-Rails core and Rails consultant
This book gave me the confidence and the motivation to elevate the performance of my Rails apps in a way I couldn’t quite unlock before.—Ifat Ribon, Principal Architect, LaunchPad Lab
About The Author
Andrew Atkinson
Andrew Atkinson has worked as a Software Engineer with Ruby on Rails and PostgreSQL for more than a decade. At Microsoft, Groupon, and various startups, he’s built, mentored, and influenced teams, and operated and scaled systems, improving their quality and reliability. He’s presented on PostgreSQL and Ruby on Rails at conferences, appeared on podcasts, and has written for the official Ruby on Rails weblog, with the goal of helping developers solve their challenges using these powerful open source technologies.
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