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Why add caching and sharding? Is the current architecture not going to keep up with demand?
by efxhoy 3y ago
Why add caching and sharding? Is the current architecture not going to keep up with demand?
- mcpherrinm 3y agoGrowth, plus reliability by reducing the SPOF. We are beginning to hit the limits of what we can do with the current single-writer database in this hardware. As well, the size of the data is larger than I’d like for a single MariaDB cluster. That makes operations like setting up new replicas take a long time. Being able to operate on smaller shards will help a lot at parallelizing some of that work.