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Database Sharding Part 1: The Vertical Ceiling

Database Sharding Part 1: The Vertical Ceiling In the early days of a startup, database scaling is a solved problem. You go into the AWS RDS or GCP Cloud SQL console, select a larger instance type, click "Modify," and yo…

Apr 20, 20265 min read

Deep DiveDatabase Sharding Mastery

#database-scaling#sharding#performance

DatabasesIntermediate

Database Sharding Part 2: Partitioning vs. Sharding

Database Sharding Part 2: Partitioning vs. Sharding When engineering teams realize their database is struggling to keep up with load, the words "partitioning" and "sharding" are often thrown around interchangeably in arc…

Apr 20, 20265 min read

Deep DiveDatabase Sharding Mastery

#database-scaling#partitioning#sharding

DatabasesAdvanced

Database Sharding Part 3: The Shard Key Blueprint

Database Sharding Part 3: The Shard Key Blueprint Once you have accepted the architectural complexity of sharding (as discussed in Part 2), you are faced with the single most critical decision in distributed database des…

Apr 20, 20265 min read

PlaybookDatabase Sharding Mastery

#database-scaling#shard-key#system-design