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"Postgres does not scale" means that you can't just give it more machines, which is true. At some point you've got the fastest available machine, maybe you've p
by frollogaston 2y ago
"Postgres does not scale" means that you can't just give it more machines, which is true. At some point you've got the fastest available machine, maybe you've played with the settings, and that's it. Then you can embark on the kind of manual sharding journey the article describes.
But most of the time, an RDBMS is the right tool for the job anyway, you just have to deal with it.
- Eikon 2y ago> "Postgres does not scale" means that you can't just give it more machines, which is true. Well, it’s only true for writes.
- frollogaston 2y agoIt's still true for reads if you need them to be fully consistent, but yeah, read replicas are the answer sometimes.
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