Data infrastructure

PgDog

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Founded 2025Origin source ↗Checked 2026-09-15

Overview

PgDog is an application for sharding PostgreSQL. It understands SQL and can distribute queries automatically between databases. It's built for managed databases, like AWS RDS, and doesn't require any changes to application code or schema.

In addition to sharding, PgDog is a load balancer and pooler, so it can act as a replacement for PgBouncer, RDS Proxy, and other Postgres scaling products. It brings the simplicity and performance of HTTP load balancing to the database.

Built from the experience of sharding Postgres at Instacart during peak growth in 2020, PgDog is the answer to the old question: does Postgres scale? It does now.

Company description As recorded 2026-11-08
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Founders & team

Lev Kokotov

Founder/CEO

Second time technical founder, sharded Postgres at Instacart in 2020 during peak growth. Previously built PostgresML (AI + PostgreSQL = 🚀).

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Location · source statedSan Francisco, CA, USA; Remote
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