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You're reading from Developing Modern Database Applications with PostgreSQL

Product type Book

Published in Aug 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781838648145

Pages 440 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Database Administration

Authors (2):

Dr. Quan Ha Le

Marcelo Diaz

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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1 - Introducing PostgreSQL Development and Administration

2. Introduction to PostgreSQL Development and Administration

3. Section 2 - Development in PostgreSQL

4. Setting Up a PostgreSQL RDS for ATMs

5. Using PostgreSQL and Node.js for Banking Transactions

6. Managing Bank ATM Locations Using PostgreSQL and Django

7. Creating a Geospatial Database Using PostGIS and PostgreSQL

8. Managing Banking Transactions using PostgREST

9. Section 3 - Administration in PostgreSQL

10. PostgreSQL with DevOps for Continuous Delivery

11. PostgreSQL High Availability Clusters

12. High-Performance Team Dashboards Using PostgreSQL and New Relic

13. Testing the Performance of Our Banking App with PGBench and JMeter

14. Test Frameworks for PostgreSQL

15. Other Books You May Enjoy

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APPENDIX - PostgreSQL among the Other Current Clouds

Setting Up a PostgreSQL RDS for ATMs

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a famous global cloud computing platform. AWS started delivering web services for IT infrastructures in 2006. Now we call these IT infrastructure services cloud computing. The main benefit of cloud computing is the replacement of upfront infrastructure expenses with low variable costs depending on your own usage. With the cloud, there is no need for us to plan for servers and other IT infrastructures in advance because AWS can spin up and deliver many servers within seconds according to your needs.

There are over 175 IT infrastructure services of AWS, including Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Elastic Container Service (ECS), Relational Database Service (RDS), Simple Storage Service (S3), and CloudFront. Now, AWS supplies reliable and low-cost infrastructure services for thousands of businesses...

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Authors (2)

Dr. Quan Ha Le

Dr. Quan Ha Le graduated with a Ph.D. in computer science from the Queen's University of Belfast, United Kingdom, in 2005. Since his Ph.D. graduation, he has been working as a PostgreSQL database administrator all over Alberta and Ontario, Canada, until now. From 2008 to 2019, Dr. Le Quan Ha administered, designed, and developed 24 small, medium, large, and huge PostgreSQL databases in Canada. Since 2016, after writing a good publication on PostgreSQL database clusters on clouds, he has been a member of the United States PostgreSQL Association (PgUS) in New York City. Dr. Le Quan Ha has also been a board member of the PgUS Diversity committee since 2018.

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Marcelo Diaz

Marcelo Diaz is a software engineer with more than 15 years of experience, with a special focus on PostgreSQL. He is passionate about open source software and has promoted its application in critical and high-demand environments where he has worked as a software developer and consultant for both private and public companies. He currently works very happily at Cybertec and as a technical reviewer for Packt Publishing. He enjoys spending his leisure time with his daughter, Malvina, and his wife, Romina. He also likes playing football.

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