Many modern web sites need fast access to an amount of information so large that it cannot be efficiently stored on a single computer. A good way to deal with this problem is to “shard” that information; that is, store it across multiple computers instead of on just one. Sharding strategies often involve two techniques: partitioning and replication. With partitioning, the data is divided into smal
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