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Lessons learned from sharding Postgres at Notion
With an effort to make Notion faster and more reliable for years to come — we migrated Notion’s PostgreSQL monolith into a horizontally-partitioned database fleet.
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With an effort to make Notion faster and more reliable for years to come — we migrated Notion’s PostgreSQL monolith into a horizontally-partitioned database fleet.
Notion’s data model enables the product’s most foundational component: blocks. Through blocks, we allow users more flexibility over their information.
How Notion build and grew our data lake to keep up with rapid growth