Phil Booth

Blog topic: extreme-learning

• Nine ways to shoot yourself in the foot with PostgreSQL

  a month ago

  Previously on Extreme Learning, I discussed all the ways I've broken production using healthchecks. In this post I'll do the same for PostgreSQL.
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• Six ways to shoot yourself in the foot with healthchecks

  a couple of months ago

  One reason I like working at startups is you get to wear many hats. Of course, by "wear many hats" I really mean "suffer occasional periods of extreme stress when things fail and there are no grownups you can go to for help". I like to think of it as Extreme Learning.
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