Episode 5 of 9 · Slack
The shard key that lied: when a correct decision goes wrong on its own
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The shard key that lied: when a correct decision goes wrong on its own. In twenty thirteen Slack picked a shard key. Everything a company owned lived together, found by asking one question: which team? It was the right answer for four years. Then nobod
Based on the board The Shard Key That Lied.
Related papers: Bigtable: A Distributed Storage System for Structured Data and Consistent Hashing and Random Trees.
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