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how does sharding work?
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sharding is a database partitioning technique that divides a database into separate, smaller parts called shards. this can be used to improve the performance of a database by allowing the data to be distributed across multiple nodes. each shard holds a subset of the data, and by spreading out the load, requests can be handled faster and more efficiently than in a centralized system.
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