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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

An overview of the project

In this step-by-step project, you will learn how to use PostgreSQL version 12 on the AWS cloud. You will start by creating an empty PostgreSQL database on AWS. Then, you will use the standard pgAdmin software to connect to your AWS database so that you can create a data table and insert all of the ATM data of New York City, which has been provided in our GitHub link. After that, you will discover how to work with this PostgreSQL database by backing up its data into snapshots; hence, you can delete the database and restore it back from your snapshot. Finally, supposing there are some challenging database disasters, you will learn how to perform a point-in-time recovery using AWS.

The project should only take you between 3 and 4 hours to complete. However, if this is the first time you are working with AWS, you might prefer to repeat the steps a few times so that you can carefully study DBaaS in the AWS cloud.

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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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