# PostgreSQL as a Microservice

DevFeed: [PostgreSQL as a Microservice](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/postgresql-as-a-microservice-34614.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://tapoueh.org/blog/2021/06/postgresql-as-a-microservice/>)

Author: Dimitri Fontaine PostgreSQL Major Contributor; Author

Published: 2021-06-08T11:40:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Dimitri Fontaine](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/dimitri-fontaine.md>)

Topics: [PostgreSQL](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/postgresql.md>), [Concurrency](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/concurrency.md>), [Microservice](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/microservice.md>), [Architecture & Design](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/architecture-design.md>), [acid](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/acid.md>), [rdbms](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/rdbms.md>)

Tags: [acid](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/acid.md>), [architecture](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/architecture.md>), [concurrency](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/concurrency.md>), [microservices](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/microservices.md>), [postgresql](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/postgresql.md>), [rdbms](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/rdbms.md>)

## AI overview

The article examines PostgreSQL as a potential microservice and argues that its distinctive value is not merely storage. It emphasizes PostgreSQL's role in managing concurrent access to data while providing guarantees such as ACID properties, schemas, and constraints.

## Source excerpt

The MACI French podcast honoured me with an invitation to a guest appearance on their weekly schedule. As you can imagine, we talked about many things related to PostgreSQL... and also reacted to some newsworthy articles carefully curated by the MACI team. One of the topics we discussed in the podcast started with looking at PostgreSQL through the angle of it being one of the microservices that your application would be composed of.