PostgreSQL, often shortened as “Postgres”, is a powerful and popular open-source relational database management system (RDBMS). It is known for its reliability, data integrity, and advanced features such as support for multiple data types, full-text search, and concurrency control. Postgres is widely used by businesses and organizations of all sizes, as well as developers and data scientists, due to its scalability, flexibility, and rich ecosystem of tools and extensions. It is also highly customizable, making it suitable for a wide range of applications, from small-scale projects to large-scale enterprise systems.
In development I like to use containerized databases. Recently I’ve been working on a micro service project that uses Postgres as a datasource. Each service has it’s own independent datasource. Running independent postgresql docker per service is resource consuming, so hack is to use a single postgres docker with multiple Read more…