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They Enabled Postgres Partitioning and their Backend fell apart

The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser

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The startup is using Postgres and we're talking eight terabyte with 10,000 queries per second. Ten million new records are added daily, each receiving an average of three updates. So you're talking 30 million tuples effectively, right? Because that updates in Postgres is actually an insert,. Many things managing this is not small feat.

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