alt Hacker NewsThe 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.
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.
> scales a very long way
This ignores the fine print. It scales a very long way under specific circumstances with specific workloads. The more write-heavy your workload the less eloquently Postgres scales.
For OpenAI's use case you could swap Postgres with MySQL and it would scale just as well.