>Over the last two and a half years, we’ve picked up a few tips and tools about scaling Postgres that we wanted to share—things we wish we knew when we first launched Instagram.
A common failure mode for myself and, I suspect, others, is thinking that we have to know every single thing before we start. Good old geek perfectionism of wanting an ideal, elegant setup. A sort of Platonic Ideal, if you will.
These guys went on to build one of the hottest web properties on earth, and they didn't get it all right up front.
If you're postponing something because you think you need to master all the intricacies of EC2, Postgres, Rails or $Technology_Name, pay close attention to this example. While they were launching growing, and being acquired for a cool billion, were you agonizing over the perfect hba.conf?
More a note to myself than anything else :)