How Figma, Notion and Slack handled shardingHorizontal sharding is the move every team hopes to put off. You take one database, split its rows across many, and suddenly every query, migration and on-call runbook has to know where the data livesOct 19, 2026 · 5 min read · 1 view
Oct 18, 2026Oct 18, 2026 · 6 min read · 1 viewWhat 11 PostgreSQL scaling stories taught meI've been collecting first-hand "how we scaled" posts from engineering blogs, and PostgreSQL shows up more than any other database: 11 stories from 7 companies so far. Read them back to back and a pat6 min read · 1 view