Thinking about scaling beyond your Postgres cluster and adding another data store like Redis or Elasticsearch? Before adopting a more complex infrastructure, take a minute and think again. It’s quite ...

Regular readers of this column won't be surprised to hear that I love both Ruby on Rails and PostgreSQL. Rails has been my primary server-side Web development framework for about eight years, and it ...

The libferris project has two major goals: mounting anything as a filesystem and providing index and search for anything it can mount. Using libferris to provide desktop search was described in my ...