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Django and Postgres for the Busy Rails Developer
About 10 years ago I wrote a post PostgreSQL for the Busy MySQL Developer, as part of switching from MySQL to Postgres for my personal and professional projects, wherever I could.
In this post, I’ll briefly cover the database parts of Django using Postgres of course, highlight some libraries and tools, and compare things to Ruby on Rails. As a developer we typically need to run multiple versions of Ruby, Python, Node, and other runtimes, to support different codebases, and to avoid modifying our system installation. This does work at a lower level than the application like sending TCP requests, mapping Postgres query result responses into Ruby data types, and much more.
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