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A few weeks ago, Figma published an article introducing their own sharding solution for PostgreSQL. The Figma engineering team was aware of, and evaluated, several existing options that could have made their database layer horizontally scalable. But still, they decided to build their own sharding solution from scrat...

PostgreSQL isn’t just a simple relational database; it’s a data management framework with the potential to engulf the entire database realm. The trend of “Using Postgres for Everything” is no longer limited to a few elite teams but is becoming a mainstream best practice.In a 2016 database meetup, I argued that a sig...

PostgreSQL, one of the most popular databases, was named DBMS of the Year 2023 by DB-Engines Ranking and is used more than any other database among startups according to HN Hiring Trends.PostgreSQL is the most popular database among startupsThe SQL standard has included features related to temporal databases since 2...

We were building a startup that measured marketing effectivness via a statistical attribution model. For this to work we had to collect a ton of online user behavior. Every click, every field input, every action. Data was stored in postgres and end users, via our UI, ran dashboards and reports that crunched the abov...