The growing pains of database architecture
How Figma moved from one Postgres instance to multiple databases by vertically partitioning table groups.
- Published
- 2023-04-04
- Scale
- Not stated in source
- Techniques
- vertical partitioning read replicas connection pooling
- Stack
- PostgreSQL AWS RDS
Try this stack yourself
- Railway · Deploy something like this on Railway: spin up PostgreSQL plus your app in a few clicks. New accounts get $20 in credit (applied when you pick a paid plan).
Railway isn't part of Figma's setup in this story. It's just an easy place to try the same building blocks.
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