What is Sharding or Data Partitioning?

    Sharding (also known as Data Partitioning) is the process of splitting a large dataset into many small partitions which are placed on different machines. Each partition is known as a “shard”.

    Each shard has …

What is Eventual Consistency?

Distributed systems will face network partitioning at some point in their life cycle. When network partitioning happens, CAP theorem dictates that if you pick availability, you cannot have true(strong) consistency, but you can still provide “eventual …