This article details how OpenAI scaled PostgreSQL to handle the massive traffic from 800 million ChatGPT users. It discusses the challenges faced during high write loads, optimizations made to reduce strain on the primary database, and strategies for maintaining performance under heavy demand.

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Recall.ai faced significant performance issues with their Postgres database due to the high concurrency of NOTIFY commands used during transactions, which caused global locks and serialized commits, leading to downtime. After investigating, they discovered that the LISTEN/NOTIFY feature did not scale well under their workload of tens of thousands of simultaneous writers. They advise against using LISTEN/NOTIFY in high-write scenarios to maintain database performance and scalability.