[HN Gopher] Hot Keys, Scalability, and the Zipf Distribution ___________________________________________________________________ Hot Keys, Scalability, and the Zipf Distribution Author : djoldman Score : 16 points Date : 2023-02-07 19:16 UTC (1 days ago) (HTM) web link (brooker.co.za) (TXT) w3m dump (brooker.co.za) | 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. | | Quote about the series: | | 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. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2023-02-08 23:00 UTC)