Nikolay and Michael discuss sharding Postgres — what it means, why and when it's needed, and the available options right now.  Here are some links to some things they mentioned: PGSQL Friday monthly blogging event https://www.pgsqlphriday.com/ Did “sharding” come from Ultima Online? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23438399  Our episode on partitioning: https://postgres.fm/episodes/partitioning Vitess https://vitess.io/ Citus https://www.citusdata.com/  Lessons learned from sharding Postgres (Notion 2021) https://www.notion.so/blog/sharding-postgres-at-notion  The Great Re-shard (Notion 2023) https://www.notion.so/blog/the-great-re-shard  The growing pains of database architecture (Figma 2023) https://www.figma.com/blog/how-figma-scaled-to-multiple-databases/ Timescale multi-node https://docs.timescale.com/self-hosted/latest/multinode-timescaledb/about-multinode/  PgCat https://github.com/postgresml/pgcat  SPQR https://github.com/pg-sharding/spqr  PL/Proxy https://plproxy.github.io/  Sharding GitLab by top-level namespace https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/engineering/development/enablement/data_stores/database/doc/root-namespace-sharding.html  Loose foreign keys (GitLab) https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/development/database/loose_foreign_keys.html  ~~~ What did you like or not like? What should we discuss next time? Let us know via a YouTube comment, on social media, or by commenting on our Google doc! ~~~ Postgres FM is brought to you by: Nikolay Samokhvalov, founder of Postgres.ai Michael Christofides, founder of pgMustard With special thanks to: Jessie Draws for the amazing artwork