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Review: Learning Heroku Postgres

Shaun Saturday June 6, 2015 Book, Review

I recently got the opportunity to take a look at Learning Heroku Postgres, a new book by Patrick Espake that seems intended to help new PostgreSQL database administrators get their data into the cloud. The chapters are short, concise, and the questionnaires at the end are a nice touch. But do they hit the mark? Almost.

Before I get too far into this review, I should point out that Heroku is a proprietary service that presents a modular deployment system for various programming languages, applications, administration, monitoring, and other related services. Though there are free hobby-level instances for most modules, it is a commercial platform which provides SAAS (Software as a Service) across multiple geographic locations. In order to leverage it properly, I recommend these hobby-level instances only for experimentation.

Review: PostgreSQL Server Programing

Shaun Thursday December 12, 2013 Book, Review

There comes a time in every DBA’s life, that he needs to add functionality to his database software. To most DBAs, and indeed for most databases, this amounts to writing a few stored procedures or triggers. In extremely advanced cases, the database may provide an API for direct C-language calls. PostgreSQL however, has gone above and beyond this for several years, and have continuously made the process easier with each iteration.

Review: Instant PostgreSQL Starter

Shaun Monday May 27, 2013 Book, Review

As a newly minted Packt author, it makes sense that I might get a request to review one of their books from time to time. On this particular occasion, I have the opportunity to give a look at Instant PostgreSQL Starter by fellow PostgreSQL user and author Daniel K. Lyons.

Review: End of Days

Shaun Wednesday December 28, 2011 Book, Review

As far as post-apocalyptic dystopian novels are concerned, Robert Gleason‘s End of Days is unique mostly because it’s mid-apocalyptic. Some of the blurbs on the jacket proclaim Gleason as the “Dante of our age,” so it must have been worth reading. I’m not sure what kind of hyperbole inspired a comment like that, but I really hope it’s sarcasm.

Review: House of Suns

Shaun Thursday June 2, 2011 Book, Review

Alastair Reynolds has been both one of my favorite, and most hated authors. I tend to enjoy his one-shots more than his series, maybe because he doesn’t have time to write himself into a corner. So too with House of Suns, a book I neglected reading for over a year because I was so put off by Absolution Gap‘s meandering [intlink id="review-absolution-gap"]nonsense[/intlink].

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