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Where does the OLTP boundary belong now?
Analytics platforms ship serverless Postgres and the old wall between transactional and analytical estates is now a product decision. A review checklist.
#oltp#databases#boundaries
Tagged: databases
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Is the database the bottleneck?
It is blamed first and guilty about half the time. A short diagnostic sequence that settles the question with evidence instead of instinct.
#scaling#databases#diagnosis
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When do you shard?
Later than the conference talks say, earlier than the outage. The conditions that genuinely require sharding, and the key choice that decides the next decade.
#scaling#databases#sharding