
SE Radio 560: Sugu Sougoumarane on Distributed SQL with Vitess
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The Advantages of Free Sharding
Katja: One of the challenges with sharding is it may become very one-sided. Katja: The beauty of this splitting is because every time you are splitting into two, eventually you can outgrow any growth. This is where the index comes into play and says, now I want to use a different sharding scheme that distributes the data better for me," she said.
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