Scaling with PostgreSQL without boiling the ocean

“Postgres was great when we started but now that our service is being used heavily we are running into a lot of ‘weird’ issues”
This sentiment is frequently echoed by CTOs and senior engineers at high-growth startups when I speak with them.
Scaling PostgreSQL successfully doesn’t always require a full team of DBAs and experts. The beauty of PostgreSQL is that solutions often lie within the database itself - by rethinking your data access patterns from first principles, you can solve many business problems at scale.