High Performance PostgreSQL for Rails

£44.99

High Performance PostgreSQL for Rails

Reliable, Scalable, Maintainable Database Applications

Programming and scripting languages: general

Author: Andrew Atkinson

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Language: English

Published by: Pragmatic Bookshelf

Published on: 17th June 2024

Format: LCP-protected ePub

ISBN: 9798888651087


Build faster, more reliable Rails apps

by taking the best advanced PostgreSQL and Active Record capabilities, and using them to solve your application scale and growth challenges. Gain the skills needed to comfortably work with multi-terabyte databases, and with complex Active Record, SQL, and specialized Indexes. Develop your skills with PostgreSQL on your laptop, then take them into production, while keeping everything in sync. Make slow queries fast, perform any schema or data migration without errors, use scaling techniques like read/write splitting, partitioning, and sharding, to meet demanding workload requirements from Internet scale consumer apps to enterprise SaaS.

Deepen your knowledge

of high-scale PostgreSQL databases and Ruby on Rails applications with dozens of practical and hands-on exercises. Unlock the mysteries surrounding complex Active Record. Make any schema or data migration change confidently, without downtime. Grow your experience with modern and exclusive PostgreSQL features like SQL Merge, Returning, and Exclusion constraints. Put advanced capabilities like Full Text Search and Publish Subscribe mechanisms built into PostgreSQL to work in your Rails apps. Improve the quality of the data in your database, using the advanced and extensible system of types and constraints to reduce and eliminate application bugs. Tackle complex topics like how to improve query performance using specialized indexes. Discover how to effectively use built-in database functions and write your own, administer replication, and make the most of partitioning and foreign data wrappers. Use more than 40 well-supported open source tools to extend and enhance PostgreSQL and Ruby on Rails. Gain invaluable insights into database administration by conducting advanced optimizations - including high-impact database maintenance - all while solving real-world operational challenges.

Take your skills into production

today and then take your PostgreSQL and Rails applications to a whole new level of reliability and performance.

What You Need:

  • A computer running macOS, Linux, or Windows and WSL2
  • PostgreSQL version 16, installed by package manager, compiled, or running with Docker
  • An Internet connection

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