PgConf.Russia 2017

We will discuss some tricks and patterns while developing web-application architecture based on ORM technology with Postgresql functions implementation with Python Django as an example. Also we will consider some ways of building the business logic inside a database with keeping Django framework opportunities and implementation of it's built-in admin panel.

VIDEO

Do you test your PostgreSQL releases prior to Production in a dedicated test environment? Are you sure that your test environment (shortly Test) is equal to Production and in an appropriate state?

In Skype we were facing multiple challenges associated with database testing:
- Simplifying complex Production architecture of thousands of PostgreSQL instances, interconnected with RPCs and replications, infrastructure servers and external DB scripts, into their Test counterparts.
- Constantly growing hardware requirements, insufficient cleanup of data generated in Test.
- Differences between Test and Production were appearing and accumulating. Recognizing and fixing them required lots of effort.