Instacart Drops Postgres for Amazon DynamoDB
Grocery delivery startup Instacart recently switched Amazon Web Services‘ DynamoDB from the open source Postgres database system, and the engineering team is now sharing the schema design that reduced the number of billable writes-per-transaction by over half. Article below.. https://thenewstack.io/is… Instacart has cut its valuation to about $10 billion, a 20% drop from its valuation in October, and a nearly 75% drop from early last year when it was valued at $39 billion
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Instacart is in the process of migrating its primary data store over to Amazon’s DynamoDB. The current system, Postgres running on Amazon EC2, was pushing its limits. In a blog post, InstaCart Software Engineer Manas Paldhe tells the deciding factor to migrate came down to something seemingly so innocuous but equally important to people who need them: push message notifications.