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” (https://pgrailsbook.com/)
Andrew's Personal blog on Postgres/Rails/general topics (https://andyatkinson.com/)
Rideshare Rails API app used for book examples/exercises (https://github.com/andyatkinson/rideshare)
Pg_scripts repo (https://github.com/andyatkinson/pg_scripts)
Andrew’s Postgres and Rails presentations and podcast appearances on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/@andatki/playlists)
Andrew Atkinson (@andatki) / X (https://twitter.com/andatki?lang=en)
Andrew on GitHub (https://github.com/andyatkinson)
Pat on Github (https://github.com/pjb4752)
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