High Scalability
Scaling a site or app is a tricky topic to tackle. There’s no shortage of technologies out there to increase performance, spread load, distribute databases and so forth; the difficulty is choosing from the sheer volume of options and permutations.
Building Scalable Databases: Pros and Cons of Various Database Sharding Schemes
Database sharding is the process of splitting up a database across multiple machines
to improve the scalability of an application. The justification for database sharding
is that after a certain scale point it is cheaper and more feasible to scale
a site horizontally by adding more machines than to grow it vertically by adding beefier
servers.
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