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by vlovich123 227 days ago
Postgres has support for an eventually consistent in-memory caching layer?
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Ha ha nice one - when your startup is Facebook you'll need that, not for your 12 users.

The reason startups get to their super kubernetes 6 layers mega AWS powered ultra cached hyper pipelined ultra optimised web queued applicatyion with no users is because "but technology X has support for an eventually consistent in-memory caching layer!!"

What about when we launch and hit the front page of HN how will the site stay up without "an eventually consistent in-memory caching layer"?

Why would it need to be eventually consistent when it's a single server?

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/18/sql-createtable.html#SQL-...