Scaling a Rails App with Postgres
Damon McCormick, developer, Pivotal Labs
Josh Susser, Senior Agile Engineer, Pivotal Labs
Josh Susser, Senior Agile Engineer, Pivotal Labs
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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