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Some Postgres Best Practices

What's this blog post about?

The text discusses best practices for managing PostgreSQL databases, including using connection strings and environment variables to securely store credentials, regularly rotating credentials, using BIGINT or UUID for primary keys, and utilizing connection pooling. It also recommends using PgBouncer for high-throughput database servers and provides further reading resources for optimizing Postgres performance.

Company
DigitalOcean

Date published
March 4, 2019

Author(s)
Kenneth Reitz

Word count
708

Language
English

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