alt Hacker NewsWhat's your actual background and expertise with Postgres and databases more broadly? Basically, do you actually know what you're doing, or is there likely a massive footgun you don't know or haven't shared with us?
What's your actual background and expertise with Postgres and databases more broadly? Basically, do you actually know what you're doing, or is there likely a massive footgun you don't know or haven't shared with us?
I spent a couple years managing a Postgres cluster with a petabyte of data. I wrote a couple blog posts from my work then[0][1]. I also wrote dozens of posts on the Postgres internals[2]. I've also given talks on how to generate fractals with SQL[3] and how to write a lisp interpreter in SQL[4].
[0] https://www.heap.io/blog/testing-database-changes-right-way
[1] https://www.heap.io/blog/analyzing-performance-millions-sql-...
[2] https://malisper.me/table-of-contents/
[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKoYIvMFnoQ
[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPSMH8w7nfw