PgDog Tips: Scale Postgres Without Rewriting Your App (opens in new tab)

PgDog is the Postgres proxy that just raised $5.5M from Basis Set, Y Combinator, and Pioneer Fund. The funding post claims it already serves more than 2M queries per second across dozens of production deployments, with over 20 TB sharded. It is three things at once: a connection pooler, a read/write load balancer, and a database sharder, written in Rust on Tokio, sitting in front of unmodified Postgres so you scale out without switching engines or rewriting queries. That last part is the pitc...