Scaling a Rails App with Postgres
Josh Susser, Senior Agile Engineer, Pivotal Labs
May 13, 2009
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Pivots Josh Susser and Damon McCormick share their experiences scaling a Rails app with a Postgres backend. Learn optimization techniques and how Postgres differs from MySQL when tuning a Rails application.
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