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by alexchamberlain 4314 days ago
Why not just call it sharding? There's enough jargon as it is!
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sciurus 4314 days ago
Because when you treat those three aspects of scaling as dimensions of a cube, you can visualize what it means to scale on different axes.

See this diagram http://akfpartners.com/techblog/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/a... taken from http://akfpartners.com/techblog/2008/05/08/splitting-applica.... For in-depth discussion, see the book The Art of Scalability.

http://theartofscalability.com/

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bkeroack 4314 days ago
You get to sound smart when you compel people to ask what jargon-word X means.
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