Making 768 servers look like 1
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PostgresMySQLshardingdatabasescalingperformancereliabilityVitessNekiproxyload balancerNLB
Author: aarvin_roshin
Date: 7/15/2026
Article Summary:
Scaling relational databases using sharding to distribute data and queries across many servers, improving performance and reliability.