Does Postgres Scale?

Post by cyberpunk » Sun, May 03, 2026, 4:13 PM UTC

lelandbatey wrote: post #35

cyberpunk wrote: post #24

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Temporal is a dumpster fire, they've gotten so much VC funding (recently had D, 300M at a 5bn valuation) with ... nothing to build except ways to trap customers into their SAAS. I give them about a year or two before the wheels fall off, then it's off to Broadcom and friends. But I could be wrong as now they're not in the 'durable execution' space at all, it's 'durable execution for ai' according to their latest conf…

Maybe. But as someone who happily self hosting pretty big Temporal workloads for my day job (I inherited it from early adopters circa 2022), it definitely does not feel like a dumpster fire. It chugs along unglamorously and I enjoy working on it.

Post by mergisi » Mon, May 04, 2026, 10:57 AM UTC

Post by gbartolini » Wed, May 06, 2026, 12:04 AM UTC

gbartolini wrote: post #104

literalAardvark wrote: post #12

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Practically trivial to do in 2026 even by hand, and there are a couple of ready to use solutions that even make it automated. If you're running it in kubernetes with cloudnativepg it's even easier. The only thing it doesn't do well is master master replication which is why most of these does it scale posts mostly talk about how slow writes are. And they are pretty slow.

It all depends on the storage underneath. If you have got good storage, with CNPG you have comparable results you get on bare metal PostgreSQL.