A comprehensive guide to PgBouncer/Postgres compatibility

My previous post, PgBouncer is important, useful, and fraught with peril, was a deep dive into Postgres feature compatibility with different modes of PgBouncer. I’m happy with how it came out and it was well received. I think it is the most comprehensive guide to Postgres/PgBouncer compatibility …

PgBouncer is useful, important, and fraught with peril

To start, I want to say that I’m appreciative that PgBouncer exists and the work its open source maintainers put into it. I also love working with PostgreSQL, and I’m thankful for the incredible amount of work and improvements that go into it as well. I also think community and industry enthusiasm …

Selecting carefully with Laravel joins

Laravel comes packaged with an ORM called Eloquent, which is one of the better PHP tools for dealing with your database layer using objects. It provides all of the features you'd expect from a modern relational mapper, and cleanly uses some PHP magic to make the process pleasant. But it has its …