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About the Author: Liran wrote his first Hello World application almost 30 years ago, at the age of five, on a Spectrum and ZX-80. Since then, he has written hundreds of thousands of lines of code in Basic, PL/1, C, Java and other programming languages and Database Sharding.
During the last decade, Liran was the leading architect and manager of several very large software projects of extreme scale and availability. He also assisted numerous startups in their move to cloud-based environments.
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08.19.11 | Comments Off on Database Sharding
Database Sharding is a popular concept used for scaling databases. Basically, it means that instead of storing data in one database, you distribute the application data across multiple databases. Why would you want to do that? Simply put, Database Sharding is the #1 way to scale your database. It’s done by many SaaS companies, the […]