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How to make 768 distinct Postgres servers look like 1 to your applications.

Making 768 servers look like 1 Ben Dicken [ @ BenjDicken ] | July 15, 2026 This is 768 servers. To some, that looks like a lot of computers. To those managing the infrastructure for apps with millions of customers, executing millions of queries per second, pretty normal. Products at this scale frequently require thousands of servers working in unison. The most difficult infrastructure component to scale is almost always the database. A single database server cannot handle such demand, so we must spread the queries and data out across many servers with database sharding . Database sharding is t

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