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HLD 101 · Lesson 8 of 12interactive

Sharding and partitioning

Pick a partition key from the queries you run most, find the hot shard before the interviewer does, and plan how you will add shards later.

writes/s8,000

replicas1

primaries1

backlog 0

Replicas copy every write, so they can’t drain a write backlog.