PostgreSQL Partition Tables: A Practical Guide
A practical guide to PostgreSQL partition tables covering strategies, tradeoffs, query performance, and how-to SQL examples
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Farewell ShipIt, Hello Merge Queue!
On a previous post on my block I talked about "ShipIt" a GitHub Bot we built when I was at Intuit to improve DevEx. Here I explain how achieve the same without any bot
Java, is it that bad?
Ever since I started learning how to code I have kept hearing people saying that Java is too verbose, too complicated, takes too long to do anything, and it's a pain to work with. But is that all true? Or is it just nitpicking?
Advent of Code is Here!
Every year everyone, who does, looks forward to their advent calendar so that they can eat chocolates but us developers have our own! Advent of Code is a yearly event where you can solve puzzles and learn new things.
Reflections about Clean Code
Many years ago I read the book Clean Code by Robert C. Martin, and I recently found some notes I took from the book and wanted to see which highlights are still valid on my coding principles.
Should you use REPL consoles?
We all have learned to love these interactive shell to test solutions for a specific problem, but the question is when you should use these and when you should not?
A pragmatic approach to agile
Throughout my career I've worked in many teams, with different ways of working. Some of them worked really well some others not so much. In this post I try to explain the few key factors that I think were the most important for us to deliver features and ensure that other teams can depend on us so that they can do the same.