During summer, we'll be compiling and sharing our favorite Docto Tech Life content of this past year, regrouped every week under a common theme. With the vaccination speeding up in France and Europe, you can imagine how busy Doctolib database has been... so we thought it was the perfect time to share our favorite database-related content!
Thomas is a contributor of the safe-pg-migrations ruby gem, a library helping your run your Ruby on Rails database migrations at scale, in a safe way. In his article, you'll learn how and why we built this Open Source library at Doctolib, and what it's doing under the hood.
Alexandre explains, with a baking analogy, what are N+1 queries, why they are bad, and how you can fix them. Chocolate cake disclaimer: don't read this if you are already hungry.
In this post, Florian walk you through the peculiarities of running a database for millions of users, and more specifically how to upgrade it with as little downtime as possible.
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