Cost-Optimized Sharding

Cost-Optimized Sharding

Why Your Sharding Strategy Saves Money Now but Costs Later (and How to Avoid It)

You have read the blog posts. shard is cheap, fast, and infinite. You spin up a few database nodes, split your data by client ID, and the bills stay l...

Cost-Optimized Sharding

What to Fix First in a Cost-Optimized Shard That's Burning Cash

You set up a cheap shard cluster to save money. Three months later, the bill is higher than the old monolithic database. What happened? More important...

Cost-Optimized Sharding

3 Sharding Configurations That Look Efficient but Ruin Your Budget

Sharding is one of those database strategies that sounds like a no-brainer. Spread the data, spread the load, cut the expenses. But as anyone who has ...