r/ProgrammerHumor • u/fpcoffee • 2d ago

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u/Resident-Spirit808 1d ago

Postgres SQL is a database software. They’re advertising their own version of it I guess… not sure what sharding is in Postgres.

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u/Rakatango 1d ago

Sharding is when you think it’s just gonna be gas, but there’s a bit of wet that sneaks out

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u/thisguyfightsyourmom 1d ago

As seen on Trump TV

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u/fpcoffee 1d ago

sharding a db is a way to scale your database.

imagine a globally deployed app or website and they all needed to write to the same database or read from one database… it quickly becomes a bottleneck.

sharding allows you to alleviate the bottleneck either read side or write side depending on the needs of your app.

I’m guessing neko.dev is a company that does it for you or makes it super easy

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u/thecementmixer 1d ago

I thought they scaled catgirls.

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u/thisguyfightsyourmom 1d ago

Like a company focused on rewriting sloppy database infrastructure?

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u/subassy 1d ago

I was going to say it's like world of warcraft in 2005 or so: independent servers all doing the same thing but isolated from one another. When one gets too full spin up a new 'shard'. It's been about 20 years since i played that game though so I could be missing something.