Mostafa Abdelraouf - Going beyond a Single Postgres Instance with Rails - Rails World 2024

Published: 06 November 2024
on channel: Ruby on Rails

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Mostafa Abdelraouf shares the journey of evolving Instacart's Rails application beyond a single Postgres instance. He discusses how they managed the added complexity from adding read replicas, and later vertically and horizontally sharding, and also touched on the topics of query routing, connection pooling, and load balancing at Instacart's scale.

#railsatscale #postgres #sharding

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