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I really wish they'd acknowledge the prior art and name that they've taken inspiration from - https://github.com/postgresml/pgcat Don't pay a startup for your DB proxy, you should own that layer yourself inside of your infrastructure.
The creator of pgdog is also the creator of pgcat, so I think they probably don't need to do this.
Love PgDog. I don't need it honestly, but using it in my on-prem k8s because I heard about you in Postgres FM podcast randomly when I had nothing to listen to on a hike in the woods and it picked up my interest. https://open.spotify.com/episode/6qgpfiW68KcvRASs6649Fb
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Instacard have released a public dataset[1] on their orders, so it should be even easier to verify this claim. From what I could find in some analysis[2] of this dataset around 100k orders per day and not per minute seems accurate. I assume they are referring to how many database requests they have due to customers orders or a similar metric and just worded it poorly. [1] https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/psparks/insta…
This data set was released years before the Covid hypergrowth phase which they are referring to.
So I still assume the original comment isn't referring to actual orders placed.
[1] https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/psparks/instacart-market-bas... [2] https://fortune.com/2022/05/18/what-to-know-instacart-ipo/
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100k(s) orders per minute is several orders of magnitude more than realistic. Amazon does 20k orders per minute. Instacart doesn't need "100,000s of grocery delivery orders per minute". There must be some 0s added for the sake of the story.
According their 2026 Q1 filing they do about 90 million orders per quarter which is about 12 orders per second, 720 orders per minute. It might make 100k row level changes per minute, but that’s a different metric. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1579091/000157909126...
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The creator of pgdog is also the creator of pgcat, so I think they probably don't need to do this.
I disagree, because now I am suspicious as to why there's a glaring omission like that. Never the mind looking at contribution timelines.
In fact postgresML took naming heat because Postgres is right there in the name and they weren't affiliated with the brand. "pg" is just two letters. like WP-engine (literally the name as they say it is "double U P engine").
And a cat and a dog is fun.
don't think they're trying to get one over on you.
I'm curious how this might help with our biggest downtime-causer with postgres, which is major version upgrades. Poolers do a great job for failover and load balancing, but we consistently need ~10-20 minutes of downtime once or twice a year to do upgrades. Logical replication between old->new versions could probably help, but it would still require flipping everything over to the new cluster without partial writes o…
It's weird that PostgreSQL still doesn't have a proper, open source, general multi-master implementation. At this point i wonder if i'll ever see that.
> With $5.5M from Basis Set, YC, Pioneer Fund and other great investors, we have years of runway, This is years of product development with a three person team. If Enterprise sales and support are a big part of your business plan it will suck up a lot more than that.
Presumably enterprise sales will bring in revenue on its own
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Yes, but that's not a shopping cart, or a checkout workflow, nor a web store with heavy analytics.
It was one of the top real estate portals in the world. A lot of geolocation searches. New search every time someone moves the map. A ton of data sent to the client. Analytics in every page view. No clue how a shopping cart or checkout flow would drastically increase database load. It should just be basic CRUD. Building a shopping cart is something every student makes. Pages in a web store can be cached relatively ea…
There’s challenges scaling read-heavy workloads, for sure — but they’re generally more straight forward than scaling write-heavy workloads. You can get away with more dumb horizontal scaling than with writes.