Databases

How To Use PostgreSQL with Your Ruby on Rails Application on macOS — step-by-step Databases tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Use PostgreSQL with Your Ruby on Rails Application on macOS

When using the Ruby on Rails web framework, the PostgreSQL database could be a robust and flexible choice for your application. In this tutorial, you will set up a Ruby on Rails development environment connected to a PostgreSQL database on a local macOS machine. You will install and configure PostgreSQL, and then test your setup by creating a Rails application that uses PostgreSQL as its database server.

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Managed Databases Connection Pools and PostgreSQL Benchmarking Using pgbench — step-by-step Databases tutorial on Progressive Robot

Managed Databases Connection Pools and PostgreSQL Benchmarking Using pgbench

In this tutorial we’ll use `pgbench`, PostgreSQL’s built-in benchmarking tool, to run load tests on a the cloud provider Managed PostgreSQL Database. We’ll dive in to connection pools, describe how they work, and show how to create one using the Cloud Control panel. Finally, using results from the `pgbench` tests, we’ll demonstrate how using a connection pool can be an inexpensive method of increasing database throughput.

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What is MariaDB? — step-by-step Databases tutorial on Progressive Robot

What is MariaDB?

MariaDB is an open-source relational database management system. As with other relational databases, MariaDB stores data in tables made up of rows and columns. Users can define, manipulate, control, and query data using Structured Query Language, more commonly known as…

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12 Days of the cloud provider: Your Complete Guide — step-by-step Databases tutorial on Progressive Robot

12 Days of the cloud provider: Your Complete Guide

A recap of the 12 Days of the cloud provider tutorial series. Build a Birthday Reminder Service and an Email Receipt Processor while exploring the cloud provider services like managed databases, serverless functions, object storage, logging, and APIs like Twilio and GenAI.

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