Elastic Scaling with Consistent Hashing: How to Manage Dynamic Database Sharding

Elastic Scaling with Consistent Hashing: How to Manage Dynamic Database Sharding

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Remember that time your database buckled under sudden traffic and your engineering team spent the weekend fighting fires? Yeah, database scalability isn’t just some academic problem—it’s what keeps CTOs up at night.

When your user base grows 10x overnight, traditional sharding approaches fall apart. You can’t just manually redistribute data without downtime or performance hits.