The Rails World 2024 Opening Keynote with DHH is now online. Watch it here.

Going beyond a Single Postgres Instance with Rails

We’ll look at the journey of evolving Instacart’s Rails application beyond a single Postgres instance, how we managed the added complexity from adding read replicas, and later vertically and horizontally sharding. We’ll touch on some topics around query routing, connection pooling and load balancing.

11:15 - 11:45

September 26th

Track 2

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Mostafa Abdelraouf

Infrastructure Engineer, Instacart

Mostafa is a Senior Staff Software Engineer on the Infrastructure team at Instacart his focus is on the data access layer between Rails and Postgres, he also contributes to PgCat (A PostgreSQL connection pool written in Rust).