https://www.brightball.com/ The most recent articles about PostgreSQL from Brightball en-us en-us https://www.brightball.com/articles/postgresql-functions-with-elixir-ecto https://www.brightball.com/articles/postgresql-functions-with-elixir-ecto Functions within PostgreSQL can be setup to return rows and included in queries just like any other table. Continuing with our theme of trying to push Elixir and Phoenix a little on this site rebuild, we will move our site search inside of a database function and experiment with different ways to call it from Ecto. PostgreSQL Elixir Phoenix Ecto Barry 2016-07-27T00:00:00Z Wed, 27 Jul 16 00:00:00 Z https://www.brightball.com/articles/insanity-with-elixir-phoenix-postgresql https://www.brightball.com/articles/insanity-with-elixir-phoenix-postgresql I'm at the borderline of obsessed with Elixir and Phoenix lately. I've avoided writing about it so far because it feels a bit too good to be true. In an effort to test my own enthusiam, I decided to rebuild this site with them in the most ridiculous way possible just to try to test some limits. Because I already have an unhealthy obsession with PostgreSQL, we're getting crazy with it too. DISCLAIMER: This is not a "how to build a blog" article. If you do what I'm about to do, people will look at you funny (and probably should). PostgreSQL Elixir Phoenix Barry 2016-07-06T00:00:00Z Wed, 06 Jul 16 00:00:00 Z https://www.brightball.com/articles/heroku-data-links-with-postgres-and-redis https://www.brightball.com/articles/heroku-data-links-with-postgres-and-redis PostgreSQL has a great feature called Foreign Data Wrappers (FDW) that allows it to connect directly to outside systems. Although the setup can be a little complicated, once it’s available you can run queries with joins or subqueries against them, insert data, create views, etc. Heroku has dramatically simplified the process of using FDW with PostgreSQL and Redis thanks to Data Links. Let’s try it out. DevOps Heroku PostgreSQL redis Barry 2015-09-16T00:00:00Z Wed, 16 Sep 15 00:00:00 Z https://www.brightball.com/articles/how-to-use-heroku-pgbackups https://www.brightball.com/articles/how-to-use-heroku-pgbackups Backing up your data is one of the most critical activities for your application. Heroku PGBackups makes the entire experience pretty simple but comes with a lot of flexibility too, with a number of options for smooth restoration. DevOps Heroku PostgreSQL Barry 2015-08-11T00:00:00Z Tue, 11 Aug 15 00:00:00 Z https://www.brightball.com/articles/heroku-postgresql-vs-amazon-rds-for-postgresql https://www.brightball.com/articles/heroku-postgresql-vs-amazon-rds-for-postgresql PostgreSQL is becoming the relational database of choice for web development for a whole host of good reasons. That means that development teams have to make a decision on whether to host their own or use a database as a service provider. The two biggest players in the world of PostgreSQL are Heroku PostgreSQL and Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL. Here's a detailed comparison. AWS Heroku PostgreSQL Barry 2015-07-03T11:04:23Z Fri, 03 Jul 15 11:04:23 Z https://www.brightball.com/articles/ruby-on-rails-and-postgresql-class-slides https://www.brightball.com/articles/ruby-on-rails-and-postgresql-class-slides In August I taught a course titled Ruby on Rails and PostgreSQL - Intro to Advanced in Greenville over the span of 3 weeks. Here is the compilation of slides from the class. Ruby Rails PostgreSQL jRuby PostGIS Barry 2015-04-06T16:03:00Z Mon, 06 Apr 15 16:03:00 Z https://www.brightball.com/articles/video-sql-vs-nosql-discussion-at-upstatephp https://www.brightball.com/articles/video-sql-vs-nosql-discussion-at-upstatephp Here's the video from the August UpstatePHP meeting in Greenville discussing SQL vs NoSQL and where they are useful for your development process. I represented SQL solutions (*cough* PostgreSQL *cough*) while Benjamin Young represented NoSQL. Ben has actively contributed to CouchDB, worked for Cloudant, Couchbase, organizes the REST Fest Unconference (happening again September 25-27th) and is the owner of Big Blue Hat. I am a gainfully employed programmer...so...there's that. PostgreSQL MongoDB CouchDB MySQL NoSQL Barry 2014-09-14T00:12:15Z Sun, 14 Sep 14 00:12:15 Z https://www.brightball.com/articles/rails-gems-to-unlock-advanced-postgresql-features https://www.brightball.com/articles/rails-gems-to-unlock-advanced-postgresql-features If you've spent any amount of time on this site you may have noticed that I'm fond of PostgreSQL...and Ruby on Rails...and that I dislike the general trend among Rails developers to ignore all of the amazing features in PostgreSQL that make your application better in favor of risking data integrity just so that all logic can remain in Rails. So here's my top collection of Rails gems to get at all that untapped power in PostgreSQL that you didn't know you had. Ruby Rails PostgreSQL PostGIS Barry 2014-09-10T01:47:00Z Wed, 10 Sep 14 01:47:00 Z https://www.brightball.com/articles/why-should-you-learn-postgresql https://www.brightball.com/articles/why-should-you-learn-postgresql Nearly a year ago I put together an hour long presentation on PostgreSQL to provide an overview of all of the benefits it provides you over other options in the database space. In hindsight, that wasn't nearly enough time because it has the capability to replace almost your entire application stack outside of the web server. In any case, here is an attempt to summarize all of the amazing functionality that you're cheating yourself out of by not choosing PostgreSQL. PostgreSQL PostGIS Barry 2014-07-21T20:00:00Z Mon, 21 Jul 14 20:00:00 Z https://www.brightball.com/articles/ruby-on-rails-and-postgresql-intro-to-advanced https://www.brightball.com/articles/ruby-on-rails-and-postgresql-intro-to-advanced Beginning August 18th I will be offering a three week evening class aimed at professional programmers who want to learn Ruby on Rails and PostgreSQL, with the goal of becoming proficient with both in a very short time. Ruby Rails PostgreSQL PostGIS Classes Barry 2014-07-15T21:55:00Z Tue, 15 Jul 14 21:55:00 Z https://www.brightball.com/articles/exploring-ruby-on-rails-and-postgresql https://www.brightball.com/articles/exploring-ruby-on-rails-and-postgresql An overview of Ruby, jRuby, Rails, Torquebox, and PostgreSQL that was presented as a 3 hour class to other programmers at The Ironyard in Greenville, SC in July of 2013. The Rails specific sections are mostly code samples that were explained during the session so the real focus of the slides is Ruby, "the rails way" / workflow / differentiators and PostgreSQL. Ruby Rails PostgreSQL jRuby Barry 2014-07-04T15:39:00Z Fri, 04 Jul 14 15:39:00 Z https://www.brightball.com/articles/postgresql-its-kindve-a-nifty-database https://www.brightball.com/articles/postgresql-its-kindve-a-nifty-database This is a presentation I recently gave to provide an overview of PostgreSQL and some of it's excellent features, including full-text search, multiple built in datatypes, data compression and extensions.  Also, Morgan Freeman is narrating. You're welcome. PostgreSQL Barry 2013-11-27T09:42:00Z Wed, 27 Nov 13 09:42:00 Z