> That is a legitimate strategy Yeah, definitely. Sorry if my post came across as saying anything else. The word "crude" simply referred to the facts that it's

> That is a legitimate strategy Yeah, definitely. Sorry if my post came across as saying anything else. The word "crude" simply referred to the facts that it's not complicated (which is good, one of the technique's strong suites tbh), and it's not complicated in a way that throws away parameters you might actually care about and which a more advanced strategy could consider (e.g., if you have one really big customer then you have to amend the sharding strategy). It introduced its own set of costs (those "you" problems you mentioned, like aggregation and billing), but I think it was the right choice.