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Why not just call it sharding? There's enough jargon as it is!
by alexchamberlain 12y ago
Why not just call it sharding? There's enough jargon as it is!
- sciurus 12y agoBecause when you treat those three aspects of scaling as dimensions of a cube, you can visualize what it means to scale on different axes. See this diagram http://akfpartners.com/techblog/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/app_cube.png http://akfpartners.com/techblog/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/a... taken from http://akfpartners.com/techblog/2008/05/08/splitting-applications-or-services-for-scale/ http://akfpartners.com/techblog/2008/05/08/splitting-applica.... For in-depth discussion, see the book The Art of Scalability. http://theartofscalability.com/ http://theartofscalability.com/
- bkeroack 12y agoYou get to sound smart when you compel people to ask what jargon-word X means.