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DATA / COMPONENT 05

PostgreSQL

Your source of truth has a capacity limit.

See in an architecture
LOOK INSIDEAn interactive, simplified mechanism
DATABASE SERVICE CAPACITY
2800 operations/s · illustrative capacity
WAITING AT 30 SECONDS4.9K

30-second whole-system model. Redis is bypassed so all dispatched work reaches the database.

01

A cache miss or write reaches PostgreSQL.

MAKE A PREDICTION

What happens when operations arrive faster than the database can serve them?