Questions tagged [sharding]
strategy for distributing data on several server-nodes that all store the same kind of data. The distribution is based on the content/value of the data. Not to be confused with sharing.
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Microservices and data storage
I'm considering moving a monolithic REST API to a microservice architecture, and I'm getting a bit confused about data storage.
As I see it, some of the benefits of microservices would be:
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Thinking pragmatically about scalability
I was recently asked as an exercise to design a scalable graph.
My first intuition was how to seperate the graph and distribute it (sharding,consistent hashing..etc)
Turns out my thinking was on ...
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