You Don't Need Redis, Elasticsearch and Kafka Yet — Postgres Does All Three
Most teams add six datastores before they need one. What Postgres already does for caching, search, queues and JSON — and when to actually split.
Jul 22, 202612 min read1
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Most teams add six datastores before they need one. What Postgres already does for caching, search, queues and JSON — and when to actually split.
Your list endpoint runs 51 queries where 2 would do. What an N+1 actually is, why it survives code review, and how to fix it with eager loading.
If you've built backend systems long enough, sooner or later you run into queues. Sending emails, processing notifications, generating reports, syncing data with third-party APIs, handling background