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I have lived a very sheltered existence. I have never worked on an application which had a database cluster or sharding, rather than just running on a single s

I have lived a very sheltered existence. I have never worked on an application which had a database cluster or sharding, rather than just running on a single server. Of course, the servers are a little bigger now than they were back around say 1990.

ams6110 12y ago
These things are necessasry only at internet scale. Your typical business application does not need a sharded distributed database even in a large enterprise system.