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The story of Vitess (Interview)

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

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Vatest

The strategy you first described where the application cord itself figures out which shard to address its queries to. That's called manual sharding. Or you can call it custom sharding in some ways, sure. But like you said, the application has to know and nothing is transparent. What vatest provides is this middle layer that hides that complexity underneath it, or tucks it away.

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