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Re:Sharding Techniques at Mixpanel Engineering by akronim on Wednesday May 11, 2011 @10:00PM (#2539232)
Step 0 - have enough traction that you need to worry about sharding.
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Re:Sharding Techniques at Mixpanel Engineering by mahmud on Thursday May 12, 2011 @04:42AM (#2539851)
Not only does Mixpanel have the traffic to justify this, they're also (were?) a 2-guy shop doing things on shoe-string and sheer engineering.

Misplaced snark is misplaced.

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Re:Sharding Techniques at Mixpanel Engineering by sjunkin on Thursday May 12, 2011 @02:54AM (#2539666)
nailed it
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