Setup Postgres, and GraphQL API with Hasura on Azure

Key Technologies: Hasura, Postgres, Terraform, Docker, and Azure. I created a data model to store railroad systems, services, scheduled, time points, and related information, detailing the schema “Beyond CRUD n’ Cruft Data-Modeling” with a few tweaks. The original I’d created for Apache Cassandra, and have since switched to Postgres giving the option of primary and... Continue reading →

Survey of Go Libraries for Database Work

Over the past few months I’ve picked up a number of libraries in the Go ecosystem to help me get work done around database engineering. These libraries are ones that I have used to do a range of work primarily around Apache Cassandra, DataStax Enterprise, PostgreSQL, and to a lesser degree MS SQL Server, MySQL,... Continue reading →

Bunches of Databases in Bunches of Weeks – PostgreSQL Day 1

May the database deluge begin, it’s time for “Bunches of Databases in Bunches of Weeks”. We’ll get into looking at databases similar to how they’re approached in “7 Databases in 7 Weeks“. In this session I got into a hard look at PostgreSQL or as some refer to it just Postgres. This is the first... Continue reading →

Let’s Talk Top 7 Options for Database Gumbo

When one starts to dig into databases things get really complex really fast. There’s not only a whole plethora of database companies and projects, but database types, storage engines, and other options and functionality to choose from. One place to get a start is just to take a look at the crazy long list of... Continue reading →

Docker Tips n’ Tricks for Devs – #0001 – 3 Second to Postgresql

The easiest implementation of a docker container with Postgresql that I’ve found recently allows the following commands to pull and run a Postgresql server for you. docker pull postgres:latest docker run -p 5432:5432 postgres Then you can just connect to the Postgresql Server by opening up pgadmin with the following connection information: … Continue reading →