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External Databases

#529 Sep 28, 2025 pro

Sometimes, we're building an integration to a third party product that doesn't expose any APIs, but we do have access to the database itself. In this episode, we'll look at connecting to external databases and look into some of the considerations when doing so to maintain data integrity.

rails database

Database Constraints

#519 Jul 20, 2025 pro

In this episode, we have a look at two different scenarios where database level constraints are used to ensure the data integrity of our Rails application. The first scenario is more simple and the second one deals with associated records.

rails database validations

Database Replica

#516 Jun 29, 2025 pro

In this episode, we'll look at database connection switching within a Rails application to switch between a primary and replica database. This has many benefits on applications which many many read and write transactions.

rails database docker

Normalizes

#495 Feb 9, 2025 pro

In this episode, we'll have a look at various approaches to data consistency and why it could be important to normalize the data. We'll look at and old approach and a more current one along with the caveats associated with each of them.

rails data model

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