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One thing that helped us a lot was setting
checkpoint_completion_target = 0.9 # up from 0.5 default
So the checkpoints get written out more evenly and cause less and shorter "stop the world" events. This was especially painful on Amazon EBS (which is a relatively bad idea by itself btw) with large shared memory size. Decreasing this actually improved performance for us.
I had exactly the same article in mind when reading the OP one.
Exactly the opposite message. Who to believe?
I'd say every programmer should read 1984 by George Orwell, to always keep in mind the big picture implications of their work.
When I first read it, I got shivers: "this book is about google!"
And after Amazon deleted the very same book from every Kindle remotely ... you could not ask for a more ironic example of how well Orwell predicted things.
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