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Tag: skype

The secret ingredient in the webscale sauce

( title, in case you don't know, comes from excellent “movie" about databases )

The secret ingredient is of course sharding.

Can we do sharding in PostgreSQL? First, let's define what sharding is:

Continue reading The secret ingredient in the webscale sauce

Posted on 2011-12-02|Tags plproxy, postgresql, proxy, scalability, sharding, skype|17 Comments on The secret ingredient in the webscale sauce

postgresql @ highscalability.com

as you perhaps know there is this site/blog called high scalability. it contains articles about various things related to performance, scalability, availability and so on.

usually, when there is something about databases, it is about mysql. luckily for us, today they showed something about postgresql:

“Skype Plans for PostgreSQL to Scale to 1 Billion Users“.

Posted on 2008-04-06|Tags performance, postgresql, scalability, skype|

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