In a wonderful blog, Kyle explores the pains he faced managing a Postgres instance for a startup he works for and how enabling partitioning sigintfically created wait events causing the backend and subsequently NGINX to through 500 errors.
We discuss this in this video/podcast
https://www.kylehailey.com/post/postgres-partition-pains-lockmanager-waits
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CPU and Kernel Page Faults
<p>Page faults occurs when the process tries to access a memory that isn’t backed by a physical page kernel raises a fault which loads a page. It happens on first access, stack expansion, COW, swap and much more. However it comes with a cost. </p><p><br /></p><p>In this episode o ... Show More
48m 37s
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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 h ... Show More
31m 29s
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Automated Deployments and the Art of the Database with Database Michael J Swart
<p>In this episode, Michael J Swart joins the Dear SQL DBA podcast to talk about databases, automation, and how he's come to illustrate some of the coolest blog posts ever to be written about data.</p> <p>Check out Michael's art and blog posts at <a href= "https://michaeljswart.c ... Show More
1h 5m
