Lessons Learned: Sharding for startups
Startup Lessons Learned
JANUARY 4, 2009
For example, Friendster was famously vertically partitioned at one time in its growth curve. I normally recommend you just store this directory on your master database, but you could use a standalone vertical shard (or even a key-based partition!) This is great for something like a huge DHT or a distributed work queue.
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