The Database Wizard with Andrew Atkinson

Ruby for All

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