The lasting lesson from Designing Data-Intensive Applications

I know I’m joining the conversation late, but I have just finished Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann and thoroughly enjoyed it. There are many discussions of this book and this YouTube interview from 2023 with the author, is a good place to start. In this post, I am going to talk about the final […]

Connecting to PostgreSQL from Visual Studio Code

In this post I demonstrate how to create a new connection to a locally running PostgreSQL database using the PostgreSQL. VS Code extension from Microsoft. For this example the following versions were used: VS Code 1.88.1, PostgreSQL VS Code Extension 0.3.0 PostgreSQL 16 Database running locally, pgAdmin 4 Version 8.2. After installing the extension, open […]

Getting started with Oracle Database running on Docker

In this post I will guide you through the steps necessary to run an Oracle Database on Docker. I will also guide through the steps to install the HR sample schema and access the database from outside the container. Install Docker Desktop If you have not done so already install Docker Desktop At the time […]