Timestamps
[01:19] Andy tells us a bit about himself, and how his journey led him to becoming a database specialist.
[03:17] How do you pronounce SQL? Andy explains why he pronounces it the way he does and what SQL actually stands for.
[04:38] Have you ever wondered if PostgreSQL is faster than MySQL? What goes into measuring database performance?
[10:19] Andrew asks Andy to dive deeper into transactions and locking in Rails which leads into a longer discussion around what locks are.
[17:08] Julie asks Andy why he prefers PostgreSQL over MySQL and how he arrived at that position.
[20:46] Andrew asks Andy what pgbouncer is and why you may want to add it to your application and when.
[22:51] Julie asks Andy a database archictecture question about when you should use join tables instead of Array or JSON columns.
[27:18] As the show winds down, Andrew asks Andy to come back on the show soon so they can keep discussing this topic.
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Links
- Andy on Twitter
- Andy's Website
- MariaDB
- PostgreSQL
- MySql
- Rails Pessimistic Locking
- Rails Optimistic Locking
- Heroku
- Capistrano
- Fly.io
- Kubernetes
- Amazon RDS
- pgbouncer
