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So don't people just publish client libs that handle the details for you? It doesn't seem like an unsurmountable problem, but once again, I've never dealt with it in practice.



So don't people just publish client libs that handle the details for you?

Sometimes, but oftentimes sharding issues are unique enough that they require custom solutions when the backend technology does not support it natively.


And these sharding issues don't happen with the things he marks as "scales!"?


That is correct. Things like S3 can expand without issue, and others like Voldemort handle partitioning data natively.




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