This post is based on half of a talk I gave at !!con. If you want to watch the talk, you can find it here.
One not too well known aspect of SQL is that it’s Turing complete. This … Read the rest
Author: malisper
Generating Fractals with SQL Queries
I recently gave a talk at !!Con West about how you can use some of the dark corners of SQL to generate fractals. You can watch the recording here:
To summarize the video, I write SQL queries that generate two … Read the rest
Perfalytics is now Generally Available
After being in beta for several months, Perfalytics is now generally available.
Perfalytics is my attempt to bring a new approach to database performance. Perfalytics integrates directly with your database to collect detailed performance information about your queries. Based on … Read the rest
Milestones
My goal with Perfalytics is to hit $100,000 in annual recurring revenue by the end of 2019. To hit that goal, assuming each user is paying $99/month, I need to get to 85 paying users by the end of the … Read the rest
My Starting Point
Running a bootstrapped business isn’t going to be easy. To make Perfalytics succeed, I’m going to need to lean on my strengths and, at the same time, compensate for my weaknesses.
I have some weaknesses which are going to make … Read the rest
Attempting a Bootstrapped Business
It’s a few days early for a New Year’s resolution. Even so, my New Year’s resolution for 2019 is to seriously attempt to start a bootstrapped business. A few weeks ago, I announced Perfalytics to the world. Perfalytics is a … Read the rest
Announcing Perfalytics: Never Run EXPLAIN ANALYZE Again
Today I’m announcing the beta for Perfalytics. Perfalytics is a tool I’ve been working on designed to make it easy to analyze query performance for Postgres. As the lead of the Database team at Heap, where I optimize the … Read the rest
Recording Footage of Myself Investigating a Performance Issue
Of the exercises I do as part of Getting Dramatically Better as a Programmer my favorite is this one. Every week I record my screen and later review the footage. I’ve found this to be a great way to understand … Read the rest
Tool Write Up – Hadoop
One exercise I do every week as part of Getting Dramatically Better as a Programmer is learn a new tool. This week, I took a look at Hadoop. I’m going to walk through what I learned and mention a … Read the rest
Book Write Up – Debugging Chapters 5 and 6
As part of my Getting Dramatically Better as a Programmer Series, I’m going to write up a few chapters of the book I’m currently reading and a few takeaways I got. I’m currently reading the book Debugging by