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Always awesome to see folks moving Postgres forward. Congrats on the launch!

(I work on Heroku Postgres) During the afformentioned "Sproc Hell", we were putting application logic in the database. Of course, this made perfect sense: it was secure because of …

Author of MoSQL, did you consider just using the MongoDB FTW instead? https://github.com/citusdata/mongo_fdw

A little-known feature of Postgres' streaming replication is Synchronous Replication or 2-safe replication, available from version 9.1 onward. It allows you to specify that a given…

Postgres, as of 9.0, has binary log streaming replication built in, truth. Slony ad other logical replication solutions out there are quite hard to set up and come with their gotch…

Followers are automatically provisioned on a different AZ than their leaders.

JSON is much more powerful than hstore. Not only can it store different JSON data types (boolean, numbers) but also you can store documents with multiple levels deep, which is not …

recent awesome discovery: you can use Inconsolata in your google docs to paste in code samples and whatnot, available from the Add Fonts item in the font picker.

No, neither of the starter tier plans (dev and basic) support PostGIS.

> Also, I'd hope they will give a few months warning before flipping the switch completely, similar to how the hoptoad/airbrake switch went. Funny you should say that, as I was inv…

highlight the file, then C-t

Who's this Linux Torvalds fella?

I really did not enjoy that.

So awesome that this is on HN. I've been to this site and it was truly amazing and magical and all those things. Viva Venezuela, nojoda!

I've had to develop a system like this before. We were a data centric, mostly SQL shop. The idea was that the BA, CEO, and other devs could all implement the system for different c…

gandi.net and dnsimple.com

Not sure what you mean by "safe" by default. Speed and performance have nothing to do with security, if that's what you mean. The reason that the default Postgres configuration doe…

akephalos is also worth a look, as opposed to env.js. We've had much better support for things like jquery live() using (a slightly hacked) akephalos: http://robots.thoughtbot.com/…

1. The Well Grounded Rubyist 2. Clean Code 3. Metaprogramming Ruby

+1, vim hands down. Cross platform, powerful, lightweight, configurable, etc