THE way to scale a database (sharding MySQL and Postgres)
Database sharding is a scaling technique that splits large databases into smaller, faster shards, each stored on separate servers. This distributes the load, improves performance, and allows your application to handle massive amounts of data and traffic efficiently.
Interactive sharding blog: https://planetscale.com/blog/database...
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