Andrew Atkinson - The Postgres Specialist
May 28, 2024•53 min•Ep. 35
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Episode description
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
- 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"
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