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> Everyone gives a shit about performance at some point, but the answer is horizontal scaling. You can’t vertically scale a single machine to run a FAANG. You
by znpy 1y ago
> Everyone gives a shit about performance at some point, but the answer is horizontal scaling. You can’t vertically scale a single machine to run a FAANG.
You might be surprised about how many companies think they're FAANG (but aren't) though.
- kstrauser 1y agoThat’s a whole other story, to be sure! “We absolutely must have multi-region simultaneous writes capable of supporting 300,000,000 simultaneous users!” “Your company sells door knobs and has 47 customers. Throw it on PostgreSQL and call it solved.”
- znpy 1y agoYup. And if you reach 94 users, just get a larger machine for PostgreSQL and call it a day, if you really think you need it.