Rails 8 introduced support for multiple databases, and by default, it wants to create separate database instances for your primary data, cache, queue, and ActionCable connections. If you’re deploying to Heroku and you just follow the defaults, you’ll end up with four separate Postgres databases, which means four separate billable databases instances. I’m using a … Read more
That sound you hear is my mind being blown. Rick Copeland and the folks at O’Reilly have really put together a great book here. Admittedly, it was outside of my usual comfort zone because of the depth of the content, but it forced me to raise my game to really dig in on some MongoDB … Read more
I’m a big fan of training and certification. It’s an increasingly important part of a professional IT worker’s career to stay in tune with current and new technologies. The Administering Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Databases Training Kit by Orin Thomas, Peter Ward and Bob Taylor from Microsoft Press is quite simply one of the best … Read more