postgresql scaling

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This tag covers PostgreSQL scaling strategies, with a focus on production deployments on Azure. Content discusses managing a single primary writer with dozens of read replicas, optimizing write performance, and reducing read latency. Real-world examples from OpenAI's Azure Database for PostgreSQL infrastructure highlight techniques like WAL streaming and read offloading. The tag is relevant for database administrators, DevOps engineers, and architects scaling PostgreSQL in cloud environments.
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    OpenAI Postgres Scaling on Azure: Writes, Replicas, and Read Optimization

    OpenAI’s database story is unexpectedly simple on paper but fiendishly complex in practice: a single primary PostgreSQL writer, dozens of read-only replicas, and a relentless focus on smoothing writes, offloading work, and squeezing every millisecond out of reads — all running on Azure Database...
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