[HN Gopher] Hot Keys, Scalability, and the Zipf Distribution
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       Hot Keys, Scalability, and the Zipf Distribution
        
       Author : djoldman
       Score  : 16 points
       Date   : 2023-02-07 19:16 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | xrayarx wrote:
       | This is part of a longer series on databases and how to make them
       | scale. Author works at amazon on databases according to his blog.
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       | Quote about the series:
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       | This is a bit of an introduction to a long series of posts I've
       | been writing about what, fundamentally, it is that makes
       | databases scale. The whole series is going to take me a long
       | time, but hopefully there's something here folks will enjoy.
        
       | mjb wrote:
       | This is the second in a series I've slowly been working on about
       | the "laws of physics" of database scalability. The first is here:
       | https://brooker.co.za/blog/2023/01/30/nosql.html
       | 
       | Obviously, scalability isn't always the most important thing, and
       | in many cases it isn't important at all. On the other hand, there
       | are a lot of assertions of the form "X scales", "Y does not
       | scale", etc. I think there's a gap in accessible content that
       | looks at whether these statements are true, and the underlying
       | principles that make them true or false.
        
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