to shard or not to shard

Though it involved DHH and Jeremy Zawodny writing walls of text about the topic, I could sum it up in two simple rules:

If you have to shard, you have to shard.
If you do not have to shard, you do not have to shard.

P.S. Everything what happens, happens.

4 thoughts on “to shard or not to shard”

OTPABA says:

2009/01/07 at 23:29

P.S.2. Shit happens as well. If you don’t have shit it could happen anyway :)
Mark Callaghan says:

2009/01/07 at 23:41

Sharding is easy, resharding is hard.
Ryan Lowe says:

2009/01/08 at 07:55

+1 for Mark’s comment. Think long and hard about a sharding strategy if the first rule applies.
Dieter_be says:

2009/01/08 at 20:12

Lol. That’s pretty much it.

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