Comment by znpy
20 hours ago
> Everyone gives a shit about performance at some point, but the answer is horizontal scaling. You can’t vertically scale a single machine to run a FAANG.
You might be surprised about how many companies think they're FAANG (but aren't) though.
That’s a whole other story, to be sure! “We absolutely must have multi-region simultaneous writes capable of supporting 300,000,000 simultaneous users!” “Your company sells door knobs and has 47 customers. Throw it on PostgreSQL and call it solved.”
Yup. And if you reach 94 users, just get a larger machine for PostgreSQL and call it a day, if you really think you need it.