Why “neki” is being discussed
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> I just do not like the work of my company being written off and under appreciated with comments like yours Not sure how I wrote your product off. I spoke about how it wasn't o…
by jjice · Sep 11, 2026
> 512 shards, each with one Postgres primary each on an r8g.16xlarge > 480 Neki routers, each on its own 8xlarge instance > We sustained 118,538,803 QPS for 16 minutes across 51…
by dataviz1000 · Sep 11, 2026
Comes off a bit rude, especially from the CEO. I get that PlanetScale has the currently superior product, and I listed the closest thing to it. You're right it's not ready, but…
by jjice · Sep 11, 2026
Completely up to the user. Neki doesnt automatically shard, its all controlled by the data topology ( https://planetscale.com/blog/what-is-a-data-topology ).
by imjosh-dev · Sep 11, 2026
Neki right now: Multiple live shards: yes Query routing across shards: yes Online shard splitting: yes Zero-downtime resharding: yes Multiple independent shard groups: yes Data…
by samlambert · Sep 11, 2026
I'm curious why the test needed so many router hosts: 512 shards, each with one Postgres primary each on an r8g.16xlarge 480 Neki routers, each on its own 8xlarge instance That'…
by AdamProut · Sep 11, 2026
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