Clients often ask us if there’s anything they should read about product development to get a head start on working with us. Here’s a list of some of our favorite books, with pointers to the best parts for our busiest clients (Brian, we’re looking at you). These recommendations apply to any entrepreneur not just to our clients.
Recently, I have been working with analytics in PostgreSQL. Often I hit the database through Ruby on Rails’ ActiveRecord ORM. But with the tens of millions of rows I needed to crunch for analytics, I achieved significantly better performance and clearer code by writing raw SQL. Here’s a compilation of things I learned or used …