https://www.chenk.top/en/tags/replication/Recent content in Replication on Chen Kai BlogHugoenFri, 26 Apr 2024 09:00:00 +0000https://www.chenk.top/en/databases/06-replication-and-partitioning/Fri, 26 Apr 2024 09:00:00 +0000https://www.chenk.top/en/databases/06-replication-and-partitioning/<p>A single database server can handle a remarkable amount of load — a well-tuned PostgreSQL instance can serve tens of thousands of queries per second. But eventually you hit a wall. Maybe you need more read throughput than one CPU can provide. Maybe you need your data to survive a data center fire. Maybe your dataset exceeds what fits on a single disk. That is when you need replication and partitioning.</p>