Database 'Sharding' Came from UO?

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Raph Koster. "Database 'Sharding' Came from UO?" raphkoster.com, January 2009. Archived at perma.cc/4N9U-5KYF

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Database “sharding” came from UO? – Raph Koster

Lessons Learned: Sharding for startups is a technical post about database scalability. What caught my eye was the term. What an odd term — “sharding.” Why would a database be desc…

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