Lessons learned scaling a PostgreSQL database to 1.2bn records/month

Re:Lessons learned scaling a PostgreSQL database to 1.2bn re... by gomezjdaniel on Tuesday January 29, 2019 @05:00AM (#19025135)

Thanks for the read!, a couple of questions:

> Now we are renting our own hardware and maintain the database. We have a lot better hardware than any of the cloud service providers could offer

Which provider are you using?

> That 30% we can use to hire a freelance DBA to check in on the servers once a day.

Where did you find this freelancer?

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Re:Lessons learned scaling a PostgreSQL database to 1.2bn re... by emddudley on Tuesday January 29, 2019 @01:20PM (#19028599)

> hire a freelance DBA to check in on the servers once a day

Not sure whether you were just interested in the author's specific freelancer but--

The term for this is "Remote DBA" and there are lots of them. I suppose the difficult part is confirming trustworthiness and skills before giving them direct access to your database.

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