Your SSD lies but that's ok | Postgres fsync
The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser
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How to Make Your API Simple
Every single write is doing an F sync technically. Whether that's a data, F sync or full F sync with the metadata of the fast system. That's something you have to watch that and you can configure that parameter on postgres. The truth is we are dealing with these many layers. To hide all of this, is such a lie to the application developer. We should never hide anything. Don't never make your API simple. Expose almost everything to the user, to the consumer. By exposing everything, you show the consumer everything. They do this never hide it. In fact, they add more and more configuration options because you will never know how people will use your API.
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