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AWS RDS PostgreSQL Setup

Start Data Engineering

Go to Services -> RDS Click on Create Database, In the Create Database prompt, choose Standard Create option with PostgreSQL as engine type. We will see how to setup a postgres instance using AWS RDS. Log in to your AWS account. In the Template section choose Free Tier and type in a DB Identifier, Master username and Master password.

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An educational side project

The Pragmatic Engineer

for the simulation engine Go on the backend PostgreSQL for the data layer React and TypeScript on the frontend Prometheus and Grafana for monitoring and observability And if you were wondering how all of this was built, Juraj documented his process in an incredible, 34-part blog series.

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Shining Some Light In The Black Box Of PostgreSQL Performance

Data Engineering Podcast

In this episode Lukas Fittl shares some hard-won wisdom about the causes and solution of many performance bottlenecks and the work that he is doing to shine some light on PostgreSQL to make it easier to understand how to keep it running smoothly.

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PostgreSQL Import CSV: 3 Easy Methods

Hevo

A popular open-source relational database used by several organizations across the world is PostgreSQL. As a business grows, the demand to efficiently handle and process the exponentially growing data also rises.

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Power Up Your PostgreSQL Analytics With Swarm64

Data Engineering Podcast

Summary The PostgreSQL database is massively popular due to its flexibility and extensive ecosystem of extensions, but it is still not the first choice for high performance analytics. Swarm64 aims to change that by adding support for advanced hardware capabilities like FPGAs and optimized usage of modern SSDs.

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Building Your Data Warehouse On Top Of PostgreSQL

Data Engineering Podcast

If you want to build a warehouse that gives you both control and flexibility then you might consider building on top of the venerable PostgreSQL project. How would you categorize the different systems and what is PostgreSQL’s position in that ecosystem? Links PostgreSQL Podcast Episode Swarm64 Podcast Episode Command Prompt Inc.

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Patching the PostgreSQL JDBC Driver

Zalando Engineering

Introduction This blog post describes a recent contribution from Zalando to the Postgres JDBC driver to address a long-standing issue with the driver’s integration with Postgres’ logical replication that resulted in runaway Write-Ahead Log (WAL) growth.