# Making 768 servers look like 1

DevFeed: [Making 768 servers look like 1](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/making-768-servers-look-like-1-2327.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://planetscale.com/blog/making-768-servers-look-like-1>)

Author: Ben Dicken

Published: 2026-07-15T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Blog -- PlanetScale](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/blog-planetscale.md>)

Topics: [Database](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/database.md>), [backends](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/backends.md>), [MySQL](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/mysql.md>)

Tags: [architecture](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/architecture.md>), [database](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/database.md>), [engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/engineering.md>), [mysql](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/mysql.md>), [performance](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/performance.md>), [postgres](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/postgres.md>), [scalability](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/scalability.md>), [servers](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/servers.md>)

## AI overview

An article about scaling Postgres databases through sharding, from a single node to hundreds of servers. It describes resource bottlenecks, read replicas, and the role of application architecture at high query volume.

## Source excerpt

How to make 768 distinct Postgres servers look like 1 to your applications.