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Making 768 servers look like 1

Hacker News Top · 2026-07-16 Cached

PlanetScale explains how to scale a relational database from a single server to 768 servers using database sharding, addressing bottlenecks like write limits and resource contention.

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Scaling Rails: 41M Req/Hour, 8 DBs, disable_joins: true

Lobsters Hottest · 2026-06-24 Cached

Aura Frames scaled its Ruby on Rails application to 41 million requests per hour by splitting into 8 primary databases and leveraging the disable_joins: true feature in Active Record.

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