Lessons Learned: Sharding for startups
Startup Lessons Learned
JANUARY 4, 2009
Imagine you want to store data about customers, each of whom has "last name" field in your database. The problem should be familiar to anyone who plays Scrabble: not all letter are equally likely to be used as the first letter of someones name. Give each entity a name. For example, consider this simple scheme.
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