Technology October 18, 2010 Trouble with Sharding 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 scalability sharding You May Also Like Technology Amazon Web services bandwidth savings Technology Amazon Web Services for Facebook Developers