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INTRODUCING NEKI: SHARDED POSTGRES

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Summary from the TLDR Dev newsletter

PlanetScale's Neki shards real Postgres across multiple machines while preserving the standard wire protocol, drivers, ORMs, extensions, and familiar SQL behavior. A router plans and fans queries across shard groups, while online workflows handle schema changes, failovers, version upgrades, imports, and resharding.