Track 20 — System Design & Architecture
20.4: Database Sharding & Scaling
The engineering cost of horizontal sharding vs the hardware cost of vertical scaling.
3 Lessons~45 min
🎯 What You'll Learn
- ✓ Hardware vs Engineering costs
- ✓ Model sharding complexity
- ✓ Scale vertically efficiently
- ✓ Measure DB limits
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