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tomnipotentyesterday at 9:33 PM1 replyview on HN

That post is about how Postgres doesn't scale for write-heavy workloads and that they had to move those workloads to Cosmos DB. For the rest of the remaining mostly-read workload they have a single primary with 50 read replicas.


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deweyyesterday at 9:36 PM

The point is that Postgres scales a very long way. Once you arrive at OpenAI / ChatGPT scale there's no shame in reaching for a dedicated queuing system.

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