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by jitl 812 days ago
You can’t necessarily play Cookie Clicker with database hardware scaling and have a good time. Query performance and upkeep processes often begin to degrade well before a table reaches the maximum hardware-bound size. We were using an instance with 96 cores and 350gb of RAM which seems over provisioned on paper and still hitting a variety of issues like stalled out Postgres auto-vacuum.