Scaling PostgreSQL to power 800M ChatGPT users

kept by eddie jan 24

OpenAI scaled a single PostgreSQL primary to serve 800 million ChatGPT users by adding 50 read replicas and offloading write-heavy workloads to Azure CosmosDB.

PostgreSQL for Everything
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Postgres for time-series workloads at any scale.
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