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- 15 years ago, Instagram outgrew a single Postgres server. Their fix was splitting data across many servers + a custom Django database abstraction. 15 years later, Neki allows you to manage this distribution with a single JSON file: the data topology.
- Poisoned connection pools can bring your application to a halt. Find out how this happens and ways to prevent it in our latest blog.
- “Vitess for Postgres” is a useful shorthand for the ambition behind Neki, but it understates the architecture we have built. At the core is the data topology, the configuration that maps logical Postgres tables to shards and routes queries between them.
- We have two more awesome lightning talks lined up for the SF Database Meetup on August 19th: - How we rewrote Postgres in Rust and made it 300x faster for analytics by @mmalisper - The OLTP of Streaming by @shikhrr Grab a seat:

