Postgres isn't slow, your storage is

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Your Storage Is. " a talk examining how storage affects PostgreSQL performance at scale. This post recaps the benchmark, what the results revealed, and the architecture proposed for running PostgreSQL on local NVMe in production. To understand why, Sai ran a benchmark comparing the same 3. 3-billion-row PostgreSQL workload on baseline gp3 EBS and local NVMe.

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