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		leowoo91 9 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: MongoDB acquires Voyage AI instagram use postgresql and still web-scale (unless this was satire)

terafo 9 months ago | [–]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs

plasma_beam 9 months ago | | [–]

I have not watched that video since 2013 (wow!) and it is still hilarious.

riku_iki 9 months ago | [–]

they obviously didn't use vanilla postgres, but built some custom sharding on top, which is untrivial task (implementation and maintenance(resharding, failover, replication, etc)).

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