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  • Improving Postgres query performance with explain/analyze

    Mar 7, 2021 performance database Postgres

    Database queries slower than you'd like? With Postgres' built-in explain/analyze capability you can identify what's making the query slow and fix it. In this example, we'll analyze the performance of query called as part of an API GET endpoint. First, we'll seed our test database with enough data to get meaningful …

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  • Integrating database access and management with Flyway and jOOQ into a Kotlin Ktor app

    Feb 28, 2021 Kotlin Ktor jOOQ database Gradle Docker Postgres

    One of my goals when I started a learning project a couple of years ago was to get more hands-on experience with Kotlin co-routines, so I explored app frameworks that natively supported co-routines. I landed on Ktor, an open-source framework from JetBrains (creators of Kotlin) that supports co-routines throughout the …

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Craig Atkinson

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