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Horizontal Scaling - What Is It?
Can you describe sharding, just for so we're all on the same page? And then we'l see how it fits into vatessa story as well. But just like the concept of sharding, how it works generally, and maybe some of the challenges at it adds. So the idea of sharding is that you have a whole set of data, and then you want to break it up into pieces and store them and handle them separately. That's sort of the essence of how you would horizontally scale something like my sequel, without leaking the details of how it's actually being stored at the back end.