To some extent, we understand what led HashiCorp in this direction. They are trying to maintain a delicate balance: on the one hand, they are creating amazing value by providing high quality, free, open source software to a community of thousands of developers; on the other hand, they are trying to run a sustainable business, so they need to... See more
Cloudflare serves around 20% of the web with 46 million requests a second.
Surely they must have a lot of data.
Where do they store it?
Plain old PostgreSQL. 🐘
Around 15-20 clusters of them.
Each cluster... See more
Did you know that focusing on performance can actually HURT your performance? This paradox is known as “The Performance Paradox.” If you care about performance, you should understand it and act accordingly.