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As a user of Timescale, one of the things I find most lacking with Timescale (and postgres also to be honest) is good educational content on par with MongoDB Un
by pcthrowaway 5y ago
As a user of Timescale, one of the things I find most lacking with Timescale (and postgres also to be honest) is good educational content on par with MongoDB University; structured courses that teach you database design concepts from first principles and then what problems postgres/timescale solve on top of them. Hands on experience working with datasets and an interactive way of learning more about the types of things you can do.
I realize Timescale and Mongo are very different things, but when I got professionally started with software 10 years ago, the MongoDB courses (and the stanford online Intro to DB course) were immensely helpful. Working with Timescale professionally now I'm often unsure whether I'm doing things suboptimally, e.g. making tables hypertables when a regular table might be better, flexibility and capabilities of indexes with hypertables, and application-facing tooling.
- thunkshift1 5y agoWhat is the meaning of ‘from first principles’? Sorry I am not up to date on the terms
- djk447 5y agoTotally fair and something that I'm actually forming a team to work on! We're starting with some very foundational material [1], that may well be review and it's not as formal / professional as Mongo University or the like, but I am going to be continuing this course and then we'll be iterating more from there. I'd really love some feedback and also your questions, ie what you want to cover or what you find confusing. You can leave comments on the video or in our community Slack channel[2] or forum[3]. Thanks for the feedback and I hope we'll be able to do some of that for you over the coming months! [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLJm2oStD9w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLJm2oStD9w [2]: timescaledb.slack.com [3]: https://www.timescale.com/forum/ https://www.timescale.com/forum/
- akulkarni 5y ago+1 We agree that the world needs more PostgreSQL and TimescaleDB educational content, and welcome any help!
- miohtama 5y agoTimescaleDB has some of the best documentation available for open source and super helpful developer advocates. They are also happy to reach out to dev teams using TimescaleDB (even open source version). We recently did a guest blog post with them: https://www.timescale.com/blog/how-trading-strategy-built-a-data-stack-for-crypto-quant-trading/ https://www.timescale.com/blog/how-trading-strategy-built-a-...
- akulkarni 5y agoThank you for the wonderful guest post (and the kind words!)
- pcthrowaway 5y ago(original commenter suggesting course-style educational content here) I agree completely with this. The documentation is great and the community on slack has been incredibly helpful when I've posted there. Even still, I personally think a lot of people would benefit from course content like MongoDB provides.