Scaling PostgreSQL to power 800 million ChatGPT users
14 points by kngl
14 points by kngl
Well that all sounds like a lot of work! Couldn't they just get ChatGPT to do it for them?
The big takeaway here is that they’re trying to avoid using postgresql for any new data as far as possible, and instead use sharded storage databases. Which I’m p sure PostgreSQL can support but not out of the box.
Right, my main take away to how do they scale writes at scale? Is to move heavy write workloads to Azure Cosmos DB, a distributed database