Outgrowing Postgres: Lessons from a YC startup

Learn lessons from Blacksmith, a YC-backed tech startup, on scaling Postgres for analytics.

Blacksmith is a YC-backed startup shaking up the world of Continuous Integration. Their promise: 2x faster GitHub Actions at less than half the cost, with world-class observability baked in.

Like many startups, Blacksmith began their analytics journey on Postgres. They wanted user-facing analytics to be a core part of their product, but the heavy analytics workloads were straining their production database. They needed to either scale their Postgres to support the load or migrate to another analytics service.

Join us for an hour-long chat with Blacksmith's founders as they discuss their journey of scaling analytics on the world's most popular database and how they got where they are today.

They'll answer questions like:

Why did you initially choose Postgres for analytics?
What matters most when building user-facing analytics?
How is analytics different from typical relational workloads on Postgres?
When did your Postgres instance start showing signs of being overloaded?
How did you choose between scaling Postgres vs migrating analytics to a dedicated service?
Should you build your own infra or go serverless? How do you decide?

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