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Scaling Clubhouse From 10K to 10M Users In 6 Months With Postgres

Do you have a Django app built on Postgres? Want to know how to scale it to 10 million users using AWS Aurora? Luke Demi, is an expert software engineer who helped scale Clubhouse’s backend infrastructure from 10 thousand users to 10 million users in 6 months. In this video, he shares his experience migrating Clubhouse from Heroku to AWS and Aurora Postgres. Prior to working at Clubhouse Luke was a staff software engineer at Doordash and Coinbase, where he also worked on very hard scaling proble

HomeAboutBlogConsulting ServicesDB GuardContact UsBack to Homepage Home Blogs Scaling Clubhouse From 10K to 10 Million Users In 6 Months With Postgres Database migration approach: Chose to take downtime, then dump and restore method instead of zero-downtime with dual writes due to time constraints. Lessons Learned Importance of planning for exponential growth and the limitations of traditional relational databases like Postgres in handling massive scale.

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