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Creating a website is the first step when setting up your presence on the Internet. To thrive long-term, you must also ensure your site can scale to accommodate growth. And one of the first steps is to implement a database that can scale with you. Otherwise, you risk experiencing slow query performance and database outages.
This post will discuss how you can use database sharding to achieve high scalability and availability for your data. We will also touch on the drawbacks of sharding and the different sharding architectures you can use.
What Is Database Sharding?