> You pick it once, when you first shard and then you're looking at downtime to adjust it?
Yes, but you say that like it's a bad thing, it's not. If you're ever forced to reshard, that means you grew beyond what you ever hoped... hurray, awesome, nice problem to have. The reality is however, 99% chance that'll never happen.
Like 1 in a 1000 people ever run into a scaling problem of this magnitude but if you read the blogs you'd come away thinking scaling issues that require sharding are common and everyone needs this stuff, but they aren't, and they don't.
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> You pick it once, when you first shard and then you're looking at downtime to adjust it?
Yes, but you say that like it's a bad thing, it's not. If you're ever forced to reshard, that means you grew beyond what you ever hoped... hurray, awesome, nice problem to have. The reality is however, 99% chance that'll never happen.
Like 1 in a 1000 people ever run into a scaling problem of this magnitude but if you read the blogs you'd come away thinking scaling issues that require sharding are common and everyone needs this stuff, but they aren't, and they don't.