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large scale reliable software system

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B M
Дата:

Dear all,

After greeting,

I taught PostgreSQL myself and developed a small scale experimental software system using PostgreSQL in the back-end.

I would like to know your advices to develop a large scale reliable software system using PostgreSQL in the back-end, through which i can share the storage with the different system users where they login to the system through the web application front-end with different passwords and usernames , save the privacy of each user data, improve overall system security and performance, achieve fast response, make backups and save the stored data from loss. The system will be hosted on a cloud.

Thank you in advance.

Re: large scale reliable software system

От
"Jonathan S. Katz"
Дата:
On 6/21/23 12:52 PM, B M wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> After greeting,
> 
> I taught PostgreSQL myself and developed a small scale 
> experimentalsoftware system using PostgreSQL in the back-end.
> 
> I would like to know your advices to develop a large scale reliable 
> software system using PostgreSQL in the back-end, through which i can 
> share the storage with the different system users where they login to 
> the system through the web application front-end with different 
> passwords and usernames , save the privacy of each user data, improve 
> overall system security and performance, achieve fast response, make 
> backups and save the stored data from loss. The system will be hosted on 
> a cloud.

This mailing list is to discuss issues related to the PostgreSQL 
documentation, not system design. There are some other places you can 
have this discussion[1] (such as pgsql-general@), though many of the 
questions you have are generally broad topics that turn into very deep, 
detailed conversations.

Thanks,

Jonathan

[1] https://www.postgresql.org/support/


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Re: large scale reliable software system

От
Erik Wienhold
Дата:
I recommend posting this to pgsql-admin or pgsql-general instead of pgsql-docs
to get more responses.  Besides that, pgsql-docs is for discussions on the
Postgres docs.

> On 21/06/2023 18:52 CEST B M <bmmasprep@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I would like to know your advices to develop a large scale reliable software
> system using PostgreSQL in the back-end,

This is very general but the following points hopefully lead you in the right
direction:

> through which i can share the storage with the different system users where
> they login to the system through the web application front-end with different
> passwords and usernames , save the privacy of each user data, improve overall
> system security

The OWASP Cheat Sheets give advice on securing web applications:
https://cheatsheetseries.owasp.org/

> and performance, achieve fast response,

My general advice: design and implement for correctness, then measure and
optimize.  For performance, look into high availability:
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/high-availability.html

> make backups and save the stored data from loss.

Use pgBackRest or pgbarman with WAL streaming to reduce the recovery point
objective (the maximum period in which data might be lost).

> The system will be hosted on a cloud.

Some cloud providers offer Postgres instances including backups, e.g. Google
Cloud Platform which I'm looking into right now.

--
Erik



Re: large scale reliable software system

От
B M
Дата:
Thank you all. I will follow your advices and directions

On Wed, Jun 21, 2023 at 7:17 PM Erik Wienhold <ewie@ewie.name> wrote:
I recommend posting this to pgsql-admin or pgsql-general instead of pgsql-docs
to get more responses.  Besides that, pgsql-docs is for discussions on the
Postgres docs.

> On 21/06/2023 18:52 CEST B M <bmmasprep@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I would like to know your advices to develop a large scale reliable software
> system using PostgreSQL in the back-end,

This is very general but the following points hopefully lead you in the right
direction:

> through which i can share the storage with the different system users where
> they login to the system through the web application front-end with different
> passwords and usernames , save the privacy of each user data, improve overall
> system security

The OWASP Cheat Sheets give advice on securing web applications:
https://cheatsheetseries.owasp.org/

> and performance, achieve fast response,

My general advice: design and implement for correctness, then measure and
optimize.  For performance, look into high availability:
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/high-availability.html

> make backups and save the stored data from loss.

Use pgBackRest or pgbarman with WAL streaming to reduce the recovery point
objective (the maximum period in which data might be lost).

> The system will be hosted on a cloud.

Some cloud providers offer Postgres instances including backups, e.g. Google
Cloud Platform which I'm looking into right now.

--
Erik