If you use Hacker News and found this post on the Aura Frame Postgres scaling retrospective interesting, I'd appreciate an upvote! Thanks for considering it.
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Here's Part 2 of the Aura Frames Christmas scaling story, focused on how we scaled Ruby on Rails from 1 to 8 databases to handle peak holiday load.
#rubyonrails #databases #scaling #postgresql
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Back in 2022, Jason and I discussed the use of NOT VALID for Check and FK constraint types in Postgres. Jason asked why they're not available for NOT NULL around 43:30? Episode #160 @jasonswett.bsky.social
3.5 years later we got 'em!
www.codewithjason.com/podcast/1122...
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🎙️ New #TalkingPostgres podcast Ep40 is out!
Jeremy Schneider talked user groups & co-organizing the Seattle Postgres User Group. Also: Happiness Hints, Oracle to Postgres transitions, & why "it’s like I was born to be here"
🎧 talkingpostgres.com/episodes/how...
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Gave a talk today at #PGData2026 on #Postgres plan management and monitoring. Some exciting changes coming to Postgres 19, and pg_stat_plans (plan statistics) now supports the new release. Full slides from the talk: resources.pganalyze.com/pganalyze_PG...
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Missed this in PG 18! #postgres We can now add "not null" constraints gradually by using "not valid" initially, which was previously limited to being used for check and foreign key constraint types. Nice.
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Take a look at how we successfully expanded our Postgres architecture to handle millions of customers setting up hundreds of thousands of new Aura digital photo frames on Christmas Day 2025.
#postgresql #databases #scaling
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Take a look at how we successfully expanded our Postgres architecture to handle millions of customers setting up hundreds of thousands of new Aura digital photo frames on Christmas Day 2025.
#postgresql #databases #scaling
andyatkinson.com/postgresql-r...
Author of High Performance PostgreSQL for Rails, Staff Engineer, Consultant, Speaker
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Hey backend devs that use Postgres: get after it!
Beta Testing PostgreSQL With Docker
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