What Does a Database for SSDs Look Like? (brooker.co.za)
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zbentley Dec 20, 2025 | on: Go ahead, self-host Postgres | context

For a fascinating counterpoint (gist: cloud hosted Postgres on RDS aurora is not anything like the system you would host yourself, and other cloud deployments of databases should also not be done like our field is used to doing it when self-hosting) see this other front page article and discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46334990

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