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| | How Relational Databases Work. This post talks about how indexes and transactions work on the inside of relational databases.
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| | Many software engineers use database indexes every day, but few of us really understand how they work. In this post I'll explain: How indexing works in Postgres using B-Trees What B-Trees are Why they are a good fit for this problem Indexes in Postgres Postgres actually offers 4 different kinds of indexes for different use cases. In this post I'll be focusing on the "normal" index, the kind you get by default when you run create index.
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| | Have you ever wondered how data stored in databases actually gets represented on your computer's hard disk? Or why some queries to your database tables benefit from adding indexes on columns? Well, whether you have or not, here's a series of posts that aim to detail my understanding of the journey from inserting a row to a database table, to actually retrieving that row.
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| When developing applications that have specific needs for running asynchronous tasks outside the web application, it is common to adopt a task queue such as Celery. This allows, for example, for the server to start an asynchronous task for heavyweight processing, and then return an answer.