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		yellowstuff on Oct 25, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: PG's 'Do Things That Don't Scale' manual e... Dropbox didn’t have horizontal scaling and ran off one database for a long time.

yawnxyz on Oct 25, 2023 [–]

Reminds me of how Notion ran on a single database for a very very long time, and everything started breaking.

willsmith72 on Oct 25, 2023 | | [–]

running everything on 1 db is way underrated

quickthrower2 on Oct 25, 2023 | | | [–]

as is: provision isolated resources for each customer

dumbfounder on Oct 25, 2023 | | [–]

I think they figured it out!

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