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> Sharding would also affect the process of contributing changes to GitLab as every contributor would now have to make sure a shard key is present in their quer
by dantiberian 9y ago
> Sharding would also affect the process of contributing changes to GitLab as every contributor would now have to make sure a shard key is present in their queries.
Why is this a problem? If you need to make a change to improve scalability, it doesn't seem unreasonable to ask contributors to follow code and performance guidelines.