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03 Sharding and Partitioning

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Vertical Scaling First

Vertical Scaling First

Feb 10, 20261 min read

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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.


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