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Sharding Techniques

Introduction Sharding can be summarized as a technique in which a database table can be split into multiple database servers to optimize read/write performance. Benefits include: Optimized query time Instead of having one huge database table, you have multiple smaller tables in more than one machine.

July 31, 2020

Data Sharding: Twitter Posts

Scenario Let's begin with a Twitter-like service that allows you to tweet new posts. The service has very high read and write traffic , we'll say ~10k read TPS, or transactions-per-second for starters.

December 28, 2021