Postgres and Curious Moon with Rob Conery
How can space science help you learn Postgres? While at NDC London, Carl and Richard talk to Rob Conery about his latest book, A Curious Moon. Rob talks about being inspired by Andy Weir's The Martian to write a book that teaches Postgres by using the data from the NASA Cassini mission to Saturn. The book is part story, part tutorial about using Postgres, data loading and analytics. And the data is real - you're working from the actual data from the Cassini mission. The book is an innovative way to learn and starts you down the path of doing real data analytics, looking at what your data says!
Guests:
Rob Conery
Rob Conery works at Microsoft with the VS Code team, creating content for YouTube as well as contributing to open source projects. Rob is also the author of The Imposter’s Handbook, The Imposter’s Roadmap, and A Curious Moon, which is one of Richard’s favorite books because of the ending.
Links:
- The Brutal Lifecycle of Javascript Frameworks https://stackoverflow.blog/2018/01/11/brutal-lifecycle-javascript-frameworks/
- The Imposter's Handbook https://bigmachine.io/products/the-imposters-handbook
- A Curious Moon https://bigmachine.io/products/a-curious-moon