2024 / Week 24

What is database sharding and how does it work? — PlanetScale

Learn what database sharding is, how sharding works, and some common sharding frameworks and tools.

What is database sharding and how does it work? — PlanetScale

https://planetscale.com/blog/what-is-database-sharding-and-how-does-it-work

What is database sharding and how does it work? — PlanetScale

Herding elephants: lessons learned from sharding Postgres at Notion

With an effort to make Notion faster and more reliable for years to come — we migrated Notion’s PostgreSQL monolith into a horizontally-partitioned database fleet.

Herding elephants: lessons learned from sharding Postgres at Notion

https://www.notion.so/blog/sharding-postgres-at-notion

Herding elephants: lessons learned from sharding Postgres at Notion

PostgreSQL at Scale: Database Schema Changes Without Downtime

Braintree Payments uses PostgreSQL as its primary datastore. We rely heavily on the data safety and consistency guarantees a traditional…

PostgreSQL at Scale: Database Schema Changes Without Downtime

https://medium.com/paypal-tech/postgresql-at-scale-database-schema-changes-without-downtime-20d3749ed680

PostgreSQL at Scale: Database Schema Changes Without Downtime

Mr. Moore gets to punt on sharding

Sharding is a database technique where you break up a big database into many smaller ones. Instead of having 1 million customers on a single, big iron machine, you perhaps have 100,000 customers on 10 different, smaller machines. The general advise on sharding is that you don’t until you h…

Mr. Moore gets to punt on sharding

https://signalvnoise.com/posts/1509-mr-moore-gets-to-punt-on-sharding

Mr. Moore gets to punt on sharding

www.drdobbs.com

https://www.drdobbs.com/errant-architectures/184414966

Think twice before sharding

I recently saw that Grails supports sharding via a nifty plugin . Briefly, sharding (as defined in Wikipedia ) is a method of horizontal partitioning

Think twice before sharding

https://www.infoworld.com/article/2073449/think-twice-before-sharding.html

Think twice before sharding

Database Sharding Explained

More features, active users, and data are collected daily. Your database is slowing your application. Many people don't understand database sharding, which could solve their difficulties. This article explains database sharding, its benefits, including ho

Database Sharding Explained

https://architecturenotes.co/p/database-sharding-explained

Database Sharding Explained

Database “sharding” came from UO?

Lessons Learned: Sharding for startups is a technical post about database scalability. What caught my eye was the term. What an odd term — “sharding.” Why would a database be desc…

Database “sharding” came from UO?

https://www.raphkoster.com/2009/01/08/database-sharding-came-from-uo/

Database “sharding” came from UO?

Partitioning GitHub’s relational databases to handle scale

In 2019, to meet growth and availability challenges, we set a plan in motion to improve our tooling and ability to partition relational databases.

Partitioning GitHub’s relational databases to handle scale

https://github.blog/2021-09-27-partitioning-githubs-relational-databases-scale/

Partitioning GitHub’s relational databases to handle scale

good prompt-