It essentially means everything goes on the same partition, which for the scenario in question was exactly what we wanted. Not everything needs to be hyper-scal

It essentially means everything goes on the same partition, which for the scenario in question was exactly what we wanted. Not everything needs to be hyper-scalable, and usually there’s an amount of overhead associated with making things so. In a demanding SLA sort of environment an extra hop to a new physical partition can mean the difference between getting paid or not.