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Why PostgresAll Things Open 20202020-10-19
Postgres claims decades of maturity (over 30 years) while adding modern features: jsonb document support that is indexable, built‑in full text search good…
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Postgres at any ScaleBirmingham on Rails 20202020-01-31
Concrete takeaways: Postgres handles everything from <10 GB to multi‑node sharded clusters, with a real case of running 1.5 million Postgres databases on a…
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Five Sharding Data Models and Which is RightRailsConf 20182018-04-17
Claims that sharding is the proven way to scale Postgres, with Citus used to turn Postgres into a sharded distributed DB and examples from Instagram Google and…
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A Hands-on Experience with Complex SQLKeep Ruby Weird 20162016-10-28
Live SQL builds a daily run‑rate query that projects each day with billing totals and computes week‑over‑week and month‑over‑month growth using Postgres…
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Running HHVM and Hack on HerokuHack Developer Day 20142014-04-10
A live deploy of Gabe’s Hack cookbook app is pushed to Heroku using a bleeding-edge HHVM buildpack, adding a stub composer.json and a Procfile. The slug…
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Postgres Performance for HumansAncient City Ruby 20142014-04-03
Targets concrete metrics and actions: aim for 99% cache hit and ~95% index hit rate, use pg_stat_statements to find the queries that consume the most time, and…
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Postgres What They Really UsePostgresOpen 20132013-09-16
Heroku reports running over a billion transactions a day and breaks out actual usage: 17% of production databases enable extensions (about 22% of those use…
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Scalable Uniques in Postgres - HyperLogLogPostgresOpen 20132013-09-16
Shows how the postgresql-hll extension implements HyperLogLog inside Postgres to count uniques, claiming a 280 bytes sketch can estimate tens of billions of…
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Postgres DemystifiedMountainWest RubyConf 20132013-04-03
Postgres claims practical features not buzzwords: arrays, hstore and native JSON for schemaless fields used in production, range types plus an exclusion…
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