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Reading Group. Shard Manager: A Generic Shard Management Framework for Geo-distributed Applications
The 97th paper in the reading group was “Shard Manager: A Generic Shard Management Framework for Geo-distributed Applications.” This paper from Facebook talks about a sharding framework used in many of Facebook’s internal systems and applications. Sharding is a standard way to provide horizontal scalability — systems can break down their data into (semi-) independent…
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