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How Notion Sharded Their Postgres Database is a web/mobile app for creating your personal workspace. You can store notes, tasks, wikis, kanban boards and other things in a Notion workspace. Sharding adds an increased maintenance burden, constraints in the application code and much more architectural complexity. The Notion team looked at the hardware constraints they were dealing with.

How Notion Sharded Their Postgres Database

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Microservices as a software architecture has made its way into the development teams of popular companies like Netflix and Google. It offers flexibility, scalability and agility for the product or service you’re putting together. But that doesn’t mean it’s a perfect infrastructure, and a lot of companies both big and small still create monoliths.

Monolith vs Microservices: Which should you use

A software architecture style where the entire application is built as a single, unified system. Readers can learn about monolithic architecture patterns, benefits, and drawbacks, as well as strategies for migrating from monolithic to microservices-based architectures.

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