I can't seem to find it right now, but I read an article, shared in the "awesome-scalability" GitHub repo, which referenced a 1978 paper, written by a couple of

I can't seem to find it right now, but I read an article, shared in the "awesome-scalability" GitHub repo, which referenced a 1978 paper, written by a couple of IBM researchers, about sharding and a lot of seemingly modern database things.