Hacker News Top Stories with Summaries (March 15, 2024)
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<h1> Hacker News Top Stories</h1>
<p>Here are the top stories from Hacker News with summaries for March 15, 2024 :</p>
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The Oregon Outback International Dark Sky Sanctuary
Summary: Oregon Outback has been named the largest Dark Sky Sanctuary in the world, covering 2.5 million acres in southern Oregon. The designation was given by DarkSky International, with plans to expand the sanctuary to 11.4 million acres. The sanctuary aims to protect the nighttime environment and preserve dark skies through responsible outdoor lighting.
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How Figma's databases team lived to tell the scale
Summary: Figma's database team successfully implemented horizontal sharding to tackle their growing database stack, which has expanded nearly 100x since 2020. The team's nine-month journey involved exploring various options, ultimately choosing to build a horizontally sharded solution on top of their existing vertically partitioned RDS Postgres infrastructure. They introduced the concept of colocations (colos) and built a DBProxy service to support horizontal sharding. This approach allowed Figma to unlock nearly infinite database scalability, addressing one of their last major scaling challenges.