The architecture of Neki
Meet Neki: sharding for Postgres. Neki allows applications to connect to massive, sharded databases over a single connection string. This post takes apart the architecture from the bottom up, one piece at a time, starting with what's underneath all of it. Real Postgres Neki is built as a sharding and scaling solution for real Postgres. It's not a fork, nor a wire-compatible reimplementation, nor a MySQL sharding idea wearing a Postgres label. Neki uses ordinary PostgreSQL instances that store ro

