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by jhherren 5534 days ago
Most web sites can grow significantly without having to do data partitioning. Simple replication should be considered as a first option, especially if your read/write ratio is high. Also, you don't have to implement a lot of extra logic in your application; just write to your master and read from the slaves.
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Damn straight. And cache appropriately (and dumbly).