Lessons learned scaling our SaaS on Postgres to 8+ billion events | Citus Con 2022

Video of a talk by Jonathan Denney at Citus Con: An Event for Postgres. Abstract: How we scaled ConvertFlow's platform to 40 million visitors per month and 8+ billion events processed, using Postgres and Citus on Azure.
Jonathan Denney is co-founder and CTO at ConvertFlow, a no-code visitor conversion platform that helps marketing teams scale their marketing workflows without waiting on developers. ConvertFlow runs their multi-tenant SaaS offering on top of Citus on Azure.
► Video bookmarks:
⏩ 00:00 Introduction
⏩ 00:58 What is Convertflow
⏩ 02:27 From 0 to 1M events
⏩ 06:42 From 1M to 100M events
⏩ 08:57 From 100M to 1B events
⏩ 12:13 From 1B to multiple billion events
⏩ 15:03 Bigint migration
⏩ 16:08 Migration to Hyperscale (Citus)
⏩ 17:19 Lessons learned recap
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[@sureshchaudhari4465]

bro you nailed it even senior engineers dont talk to the point the webinar is not lengthy delivers so much on time

[@JaNaMSoNi]

Really helpful

[@Kingromstar]

Timescaledb wasn't out yet, lol.

[@ahmettek315]

It is out, so what?

[@svenbb4937]

The most important lesson was missing: Hire some experienced developer who know what they are doing...

[@mzyil]

startups rarely have the money

[@PatrickMichalina]

​@@mzyil they can and do!

[@RU-qv3jl]

Well they‘re still going so apparently that luxury isn‘t needed and it is a luxury for a startup.

[@RH-of5cr]

naturally we chose ruby on rails.... wahahaha

[@RU-qv3jl]

Did it work? Did they make money? Are they still going? Business is less abut ego than things working, which is what they did.