I’ve never been a big fan of sharding and here is a good article that lists a bunch of reasons why:
http://highscalability.com/blog/2010/10/15/troubles-with-sharding-what-can-we-learn-from-the-foursquare.html
Some geek stuff, some not so geek stuff.
I’ve never been a big fan of sharding and here is a good article that lists a bunch of reasons why:
http://highscalability.com/blog/2010/10/15/troubles-with-sharding-what-can-we-learn-from-the-foursquare.html