> Most workloads don’t need distributed OLTP. Hardware got faster and cheaper. A single beefy machine can handle the majority of transactional workloads. Cursor and OpenAI are powered by a single-box Postgres instance. You’ll be just fine.
I thought this was such an important point. Sooooo many dev hours were spent figuring out how to do distributed writes, and for a lot of companies that work was never needed.
I thought this was such an important point. Sooooo many dev hours were spent figuring out how to do distributed writes, and for a lot of companies that work was never needed.