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hot-shards
- Oct 13, 2026 Why Append-Only Keys Concentrate Load on One Shard Monotonic keys place every insert at the end of the key space, so one partition absorbs the write traffic. The fixes, from bit-reversal to bucket suffixes, and what each costs. distributed systems
- Jun 17, 2026 Hash and Range Partitioning: Choosing What the Shard Key Preserves Why range partitioning keeps ordered scans and concentrates writes, why hashing spreads load and destroys locality, and how consistent hashing changes only the movement cost. databases
- May 27, 2026 Splitting a Partition While Writes Continue The in-place split protocol: freeze, cut, publish, then let readers discover the new boundary. Why the split point is a durable record and why the parent must keep serving. distributed systems