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Re:Postgres scaling advice by pas on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @11:39AM (#25917858)
Monzo (UK bank) has 1600+ microservices, but mandates a common framework/library and uses Cassandra. (Which is basically a shared nothing, bring your own schema "database".)

So it makes sense to combine advantages of different approaches.

Re:Postgres scaling advice by riku_iki on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @09:39PM (#25923611)
using non-ACID db for financial services probably requires lots of trickery.
Re:Postgres scaling advice by collyw on Monday February 01, 2021 @10:55AM (#25989714)
it is web scale though