Partitioning can provide a number of benefits to a sharding system, including faster query execution. Let’s see how it works. In a previous post, I described a sharding system to scale throughput and ...

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Early scaling decisions can come back to haunt you. Follow these tips to ensure that data sharding actually helps, rather than hinders, the scalability of your application. New SaaS startups rarely ...

Sharding could be the key to allowing blockchains to scale, while maintaining the privacy and security features that make the distributed ledger technology so hot. But there are hurdles that need to ...