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HLD Interview Notes: Day 15/30 Topic: Database Sharding: Horizontal Partitioning Imagine your application has millions…

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HLD Interview Notes: Day 15/30 Topic: Database Sharding: Horizontal Partitioning Imagine your application has millions of users and billions of database records. As your application grows, a single database server may struggle to handle the increasing storage requirements and query traffic. Adding more read replicas can improve read scalability, but what happens when the primary database itself becomes too large to handle the write workload? How can we distribute data across multiple database servers while allowing the application to access it efficiently? That's where Database Sharding

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