Vertical Scaling First
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Modern hardware (64+ cores, TBs of RAM, NVMe SSDs) handles more than most assume. Postgres on a large instance handles millions of rows. Don’t shard until you must.
← Back to Sharding vs Alternatives
Modern hardware (64+ cores, TBs of RAM, NVMe SSDs) handles more than most assume. Postgres on a large instance handles millions of rows. Don’t shard until you must.