Essential PostgreSQL Production Tips: Happiness Hints
Explore Jeremy Schneider's 'Happiness Hints,' a collection of essential best practices for ensuring robust and reliable PostgreSQL production environments, applicable to both self-managed and cloud-hosted setups.
Ardent Performance Computing: Happiness Hints
This section outlines a collection of crucial practices, dubbed "Happiness Hints," that Jeremy Schneider personally recommends for every production PostgreSQL environment. These are generally points that he and his peers consider fundamental, often assuming their implementation without debate. While most items are widely accepted, some, such as specific scaling points or dynamic sizing for connection pools, may still spark discussion. These "Happiness Hints" are therefore biased towards Jeremy's expert opinions on those particular topics.
These recommendations apply universally, whether you manage PostgreSQL on your own hardware in a private data center or utilize hosted or managed PostgreSQL services from providers like Amazon RDS.
Disclaimer
This is Jeremy Schneider's personal website. The views expressed here are solely his own and may not reflect the views of his employer.
He is currently seeking consulting and/or contracting work in the USA, specifically within the Oracle database ecosystem.