I’m nowhere near being the best person to stand on stage however there are a couple of things that tick me off - speakers who deliver a session with their hand in their pocket or use cards ti read off or continuously look back on their slides and essentially read them.
Fun fact: OpenAI handles 800 million users on ChatGPT with just one PostgreSQL primary and 50 read replicas 🤯
Today, OpenAI published an engineering blog explaining how they scaled their Postgres setup to support a massive 800 million users using a single primary and 50 multi-region replicas.
They dive into details around their scaling approach, the PgBouncer proxy, cache locking, and cascading read replicas. It is genuinely neat and impressive.
I just published a video on my YouTube channel where I dissect the blog and break down the nuances.
Give it a watch - it is short and fun.