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Herding Elephants: Lessons Learned from Sharding Postgres at Notion
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Herding elephants: Lessons learned from sharding Postgres at Notion
With an effort to make Notion faster and more reliable for years to come — we migrated Notion’s PostgreSQL monolith into a horizontally-partitioned database fleet.
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