Re: Describing the natural architecture for an internet-facing Postgres based app: feedback sought

From: Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at>
To: Guyren Howe <guyren(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL General <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Describing the natural architecture for an internet-facing Postgres based app: feedback sought
Date: 2026-04-29 07:54:41
Message-ID: 3dc31e0b6f47cb7b5f6bb78f2dd759364fedf69c.camel@cybertec.at
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On Wed, 2026-04-29 at 15:42 +1000, Guyren Howe wrote:
> If you’re doing a larger application, you’re probably sharding anyway.
> If you have more database servers and fewer web servers, is that actually an issue?

No, but sharding is absolutely non-trivial. Your application has to be designed
for it, and your data must be so that they can be split across shards with as few
interconnections as possible. Spinning up more application servers is much easier.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe

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