Postgres is a common pick to bootstrap an application because it’s well known, flexible and dependable. Its flexibility means it can handle most things you throw at it, for a time. As an application scales, Postgres is often pushed to its limits by workloads it wasn’t built for.
The point at which an app reaches these limits hasn’t changed, but the time taken to reach that point has dramatically reduced thanks to AI.
One pattern that has emerged to address this is combining Postgres with ClickHouse. In this architecture, Postgres…
