We are splitting our database into Main and CI
GitLab.com split CI tables into their own Postgres database to relieve its main database.
- Published
- 2022-06-02
- Scale
- Not stated in source
- Techniques
- vertical partitioning decomposition
- Stack
- PostgreSQL Ruby on Rails
Try this stack yourself
- Railway · Deploy something like this on Railway: spin up PostgreSQL and Ruby on Rails 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 GitLab's setup in this story. It's just an easy place to try the same building blocks.
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