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nkmnzyesterday at 6:11 PM3 repliesview on HN

It took me years before I started tuning the memory-related configuration of postgres for workload, schema and data, in any way. It "just works" for the first ten thousand concurrent users.


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cluckindanyesterday at 6:16 PM

Well, most people working on a car don’t have a car lift: it only makes sense when you need to safely work on a large volume of cars. If you only work on one or two, a jack and a pile of wood works just fine.

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kamma4434yesterday at 6:26 PM

Modern JVMs are pretty effective in most scenarios right out of the box.