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Database sharding case study: PostgreSQL

Lessons learned from how the Notion's team sharded their monolithic Postgres.

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Franco Fernando
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Hi Friends,

Welcome to the 108th issue of the Polymathic Engineer newsletter.

A few weeks ago, we discussed in depth what database sharding is and saw how hard it can be to scale a database horizontally. Today, we will go through a real-world case study to see the challenges Notion faced in sharding their Postgres database and how they overcame them.

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