Let's Get Down to Business with Rails and PostgreSQL

I’m happy to share that I was a guest on the Rails Business podcast and the episode is now live. Here’s a recap of the topics we discussed. Engineering Work at Aura We spent most of the time discussing engineering work last year related to scaling the database workload for peak traffic at Aura where we use Ruby on Rails and PostgreSQL. I’m presenting this information in two places this fall, Rails at Scale Summit in Austin, TX and the Postgres Summit in NYC. Besides the podcast, you can get more details in these posts: From Christmas Outage to #1 App Store Ranking: An Aura Frames Postgres Scaling Retrospective Scaling Rails at Aura Frames: Splitting to 8 Primaries and Reaching #1 in the App Store If you’re not able to make those events or prefer to listen to a discussion of the content, then the podcast will have a lot of the same information. Technical Books Besides the work at Aura, we also checked in on my book High Performance PostgreSQL for Rails, which has now been published in…