> Sharding is used, a database is split when it reaches 50% of capacity, allows easy growth and gives sufficient IO capacity Nice, compared to the usual, "The

> Sharding is used, a database is split when it reaches 50% of capacity, allows easy growth and gives sufficient IO capacity Nice, compared to the usual, "The database was at 100% capacity, then we tried to shard/partition, and it did not go too well."