alt Hacker NewsThis is why I love Postgres. It can get you to being one of the largest websites before you need to reconsider your architecture just by throwing CPU and disk at it. At that point you can well afford to hire people who are deep experts at sharding etc.
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9rx • today at 8:21 AM
> At that point you can well afford to hire people who are deep experts at sharding etc.
Can you, though? OpenAI is haemorrhaging money like it is going out of style and, according to the news cycle over the last couple of days, will likely to be bankrupt by 2027.
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PostgreSQL actually supports sharding out of the box, it's just a matter of setting up the right table partitioning and using Foreign Data Wrapper (FDW) to forward queries to remote databases. I'm not sure what the post is referencing when they say that sharding requires leaving Postgres altogether.