Notion

Herding elephants: Lessons learned from sharding Postgres at Notion

Notion split its Postgres monolith into a fleet of logical shards keyed by workspace, using double-writes and backfills to migrate.

Published
2021-10-06
Scale
Not stated in source
Techniques
horizontal sharding online migration double writes
Stack
PostgreSQL AWS RDS

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