From Christmas Outage to #1 App Store Ranking: An Aura Frames Postgres Scaling Retrospective
Summary
This post recounts Aura Frames' Postgres scaling journey from a Christmas 2024 outage to a robust Christmas 2025 deployment. It details vertical scaling, sharding across eight primaries, and canary/Blue-Green deployment practices, with impressive throughput metrics and lessons learned for high-scale DB operations.