Lesson 04 · 16 min
Replication, sharding and partitioning
How to spread reads across replicas, a large table across partitions, and data across several servers.
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A single PostgreSQL server can handle a lot. But at some point there are too many reads, a table grows to hundreds of millions of rows, or you need fault tolerance. There are three different tools for this, and people often mix them up.
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