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I wrote a new book that has been in the works for years. It is called Root Cause, and it is for those who enjoy the art of backend engineering.Early in my career, 20 years ago, I built backend and database applications without fully grasping their inner mechanics. Performance iss ... Show More

In this video I introduce 5 different design patterns for building backend applications. Each mode explains how a socket listener is established, a connections are established and how threads and connections are managed to read, write and process requests. 

Page tables provide the mapping between virtual memory and physical memory for each process. This means it needs to be as efficient and as fast as possible. I explore the inner workings of page tables in this episode.0:00 Intro2:00 Virtual Memory ⁃ ⁃ 8:00 MMU10:00 Page Tables ⁃ ⁃ ... Show More

pganalyze: - Weekly series "5mins of Postgres": - How Postgres chooses which index to use: - CMU databases courses: - Postgres community: As well as social links: - Mastodon: - Twitter/X: @pganalyze, @LukasFittl - GitHub: @pganalyze, @lfittl - LinkedIn. 

<p>Join Scott Hanselman as he sits down with Sai Srirampur, as they explore the intricacies of Postgres Replication and how it can be turbocharged using PeerDB. In the realm of databases, Postgres Replication is like a well-choreographed dance between servers. Sai takes us behind ... Show More

Rasmus Porsager created Postgres.js –the fastest full-featured PostgreSQL client for Node.js and Deno. Today he joins Jerod for a deep-dive on Postgres, why he created this open source library, and how you can use it to build pg-backed JavaScript applications. Discuss on Changelo ... Show More

Erik Darling joins Kendra Little to rate different SQL Server Performance Tuning Techniques in episode 81 of the Dear SQL DBA podcast. We share our opinions of... (deep breath)   Recompile hints, Query Store hints and plan forcing, CTEs, Resource Governor, the legacy cardinality ... Show More

Rasmus Porsager created Postgres.js –the fastest full-featured PostgreSQL client for Node.js and Deno. Today he joins Jerod for a deep-dive on Postgres, why he created this open source library, and how you can use it to build pg-backed JavaScript applications. 

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 h ... Show More

If you start a new Rails project today, you’re probably going to pick Postgres for your database. And if you have a ten year old Rails app, you might be using MySQL. But Rails ships with support for SQLite, a lightweight SQL database. Can that lightweight database be used to make ... Show More

<div class="wp-block-jetpack-markdown"><h2>Summary</h2> <p>Building applications on top of unbounded event streams is a complex endeavor, requiring careful integration of multiple disparate systems that were engineered in isolation. The ksqlDB project was created to address this ... Show More

Guy Glantser is co-hosting with Eitan Blumin for the first time, and we have a lot of topics to cover and catching up to do. PASS and SQLBits Conferences Storage Best Practices for SQL on IaaS in Azure SQL VM RP (Resource Provider) Guy's hopes for SQL Server setup options SQL Ser ... Show More

<p>These days, every company looking at analyzing their data for insights has a data pipeline setup. Many companies have a fast production database, often a NoSQL or key-value store, that goes through a data pipeline.The pipeline process performs some sort of extract-transform-lo ... Show More