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		Eikon 11 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Making Postgres scale > "Postgres does not scale" means that you can't just give it more machines, which is true. Well, it’s only true for writes.

frollogaston 11 months ago | [–]

It's still true for reads if you need them to be fully consistent, but yeah, read replicas are the answer sometimes.

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