alt Hacker NewsIt’s incredible how much Postgres can handle.
At $WORK, we write ~100M rows per day and keep years of history, all in a single database. Sure, the box is big, but I have beautiful transactional workloads and no distributed systems to worry about!
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wvh • today at 3:14 PM
Two days ago, I'd have said the same. Yesterday, big box went down, and because it was so stable, it was a joint less oiled and the spare chickened out at the wrong time and apparently even managed to mess up the database timeline. Today was the post-mortem, and it was rough.
I'm just saying, simple is nice and fast when it works, until it doesn't. I'm not saying to make everything complex, just to remember life is a survivor's game.
At $WORK, we are within the range of 2 billion rows per day on one of our apps. We do have beefy hardware and ultra fast SSD storage though.