TigerBeetle: A Trillion Transactions [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2_BqkKTbD8

Article

  • TigerBeetle financial DB demo: handling trillion-scale transactions
  • Presenter Joran Greef argues for single beefy server over distributed complexity
  • Introduces ‘diagonal scaling’ as alternative to industry-standard decoupling

Discussion

  • One commenter challenged diagonal scaling as equivalent to the decoupling it criticizes
  • Production user reported difficulty with streaming backup architecture
  • Commenter summarized bluntly: buy one beefy server instead of Kubernetes

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Added Apr 16, 2026
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