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Thanks for that — I didn't know about `clone` (and important to note it's non-default) and now intend to try it out.

As long as you're using Postgres, I would definitely try out an approach based on template databases in your situation. It should check all the boxes that a run with `db/seed.rb` w…

Ah yep, good point. I was confusing "ramdisk" versus just "ephemeral in-memory".

It doesn't look like MySQL has any concept like a template database. You could still migrate up a pristine database, use mysqldump to produce a schema, then load that into a series…

No worries Peter. And thanks for putting together pgtestdb — such a great project! This conversion sprint was a fun little experiment.

Some very significant disadvantages to that approach: * It's common these days for a single operation to manipulate dozens or even hundreds of database records. Often these records…

Interesting. How many database copies do you bring up when the test suite starts running, and how is parallelism handled?

Yeah, I've generally recommended using test transactions during test cases [1] as they're extremely fast. I'm open to alternatives like Peter's approach here though because the tem…

Peter actually makes this exact point in the project's README. See this section here: https://github.com/peterldowns/pgtestdb#how-do-i-make-it-go-... I'd just say that a nice thing…

Thanks, this is neat. Goodreads seems to be get so little development attention these days that it's a miracle it still runs. Interesting choice by BookWyrm to hide review ratings …

Blake wrote a nice page on the benefits of using transactional-based enqueuing here: https://riverqueue.com/docs/transactional-enqueueing It's true that it's not distributed, but t…

There's some similarities with DBOS for sure like using Postgres as a backend. Here's some differences based on my browsing of their docs for a little while: * River's built around…

Yes, if one of the admins/mods could correct this, it'd be amazing! The rest of the title is fine.

Yes, I roughly agree with all of this. In fact, for most of my existence, I'm been one of those cheap programmers. The circumstances that led to me trying to push River for the nex…

Thanks dzonga!

To be fair I guess, the way the article is titled goes out of its way to mislead. It would be quite easy to say "Added 911,000 fewer jobs from March 2024 to March 2025" or "the yea…

That's absolutely bananas. $3 million for a _report_ about suggestions for possible immigration reform (to speed it up of course). In the hole $62 billion a year, and a sizable chu…

Are you my doppelganger? I made almost this exact comment word-for-word to a friend of mine a few weeks ago. Trudeau's immigration video from December [1] was one of the most disho…

The point is that Democratic voters didn't get a chance to have their voice heard. Conducting polling is post-hoc rationalization for Harris being installed by party leaders in unp…

Also notable that the author didn't link Haje's (the TechCrunch person who railed against Alexander Wang) actual writing because he knew it doesn't make either Haje, or his argumen…

I found this by accident on YouTube the other day, and started watching it, not intending at all to sit through the 4+ hour runtime, but by the next day I'd watched the entire thin…

Thanks Shayon!!! Very kind of you :)