Growing databases or increases in number of customers is a good thing for your business. It does however bring challenges when working with relational databases. In the recent years, database sharding has emerged as a design pattern to handle database growth while maintaining required performance. In this episode, join Anuj as he discusses the database scalability challenge, when and why is it important to horizontally scale the database along with benefits and challenges of horizontally scaling your databases.
Additional Resources:
What is database sharding?: https://aws.amazon.com/what-is/database-sharding/
Journey to adopt cloud native architecture series: Maximizing system throughput: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/architecture/journey-to-adopt-cloud-native-architecture-series-2-maximizing-system-throughput/
Check out more resources for architecting in the #AWS cloud:
http://amzn.to/3qXIsWN
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