Jason Skowronski for Heroku Posted on Oct 9, 2019 • Updated on Oct 16, 2019 Thinking about scaling beyond your Postgres cluster and adding another data store like Redis or Elasticsearch? Before adopting a more complex infrastructure, take a minute and think again. It’s quite possible to get more out of an existing Postgres database. It can scale for heavy loads and offers powerful features which a
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