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MTAR T3D Sessions: Scaling PostgreSQL Without Replacing It
In this episode, JD talks with Sugu Sougoumarane, Head of Multigres at Supabase and co-creator of Vitess, about one of the biggest engineering challenges facing large PostgreSQL deployments: how do you scale beyond a single database without replacing PostgreSQL?
Drawing on his experience building Vitess and now leading Multigres, Sugu explains why PostgreSQL is reaching a new stage of growth and why scaling it requires much more than simply sharding data. Together, he and JD explore the architectural decisions behind distributed transactions, resharding, consistency, and the infrastructure…
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