Sharding on Tuan Hiep TRAN — The Principal Craft

Sharding on Tuan Hiep TRAN — The Principal Crafthttps://tuanhiep.github.io/principal/tags/sharding/Recent content in Sharding on Tuan Hiep TRAN — The Principal CraftHugo -- 0.162.1en-usSat, 11 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000From Contention to Throughput (4/5): Scaling Beyond a Single Database — Partitioning & The Connection Collapsehttps://tuanhiep.github.io/principal/posts/series_2/4.scaling_beyond_postgresql_sharding/Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://tuanhiep.github.io/principal/posts/series_2/4.scaling_beyond_postgresql_sharding/When a single PostgreSQL instance hits its physical limits, we must shard. We explore the Connection Collapse trap, multiplexing proxies, and intelligent shard routing.