DB 101: Databases for Developers

A few overlooked aspects of working with databases

Peter Christian Fraedrich
Better Programming
Published in
9 min readJun 4, 2021

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Original photo by Bernard Hermant on Unsplash

Over the past few weeks, I’ve been doing some deep-diving into databases as part of my day-job effort to migrate our existing Postgres 9x databases to something more recent, like Postgres 13. As an SRE I don’t typically have much exposure to the database layer of the applications that I support beyond making them available…

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