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The Great Re-shard: adding Postgres capacity (again) with zero downtime

Earlier this year, we swapped out Notion’s live database cluster for a larger one without taking downtime.We added far more machines to the new cluster compared to its previous generation, which was at-risk due to a significant increase in traffic since our last capacity overhaul. Notion users likely didn’t notice this complicated failover (the details about which will follow) because we designed the process to not require downtime, keeping Notion up for an ever-more-global Notion community.This...

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