Andrew Atkinson is a Rails developer, turned Postgres specialist, turned author and consultant. He joins us to talk about his developer journey, how he found his niche with Postgres, writing his new book, High Performance PostgreSQL for Rails, and the launch of his consulting practice.

Relevant Links

Twitter
Website (Consulting page)
High Performance PostgreSQL for Rails
Newsletter
How we made PG Fitter, Happier, More Productive at PGConf NYC 2021 (slides, blog post)
More videos

Other Shoutouts

RailsConf 2022 blog post
Michael Hartl's RailsSpace book
Wendy's spicy chicken, GOATed
David Rowley, PG committer and past mentor, recently writing about PostgreSQL 16 query planner enhancements.
PG Conf NYC: great conf, CFP open now! I've gone twice! Same dates as Rails World though or around there.
Aaron Francis: Do Stuff, Tell People
Tobias Petry SQL For Devs
Charity Majors "Accidental DBA"

Andrew Atkinson - The Postgres Specialist