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Partitioning & Sharding

Data distribution strategies across multiple nodes

4 concepts DDIA Ch 6

Partitioning Strategies

Key range, hash, and composite partitioning approaches

Request Routing

How systems route requests to the correct partition

Rebalancing Partitions

Moving data between nodes when cluster topology changes

Secondary Index Partitioning

Strategies for partitioning secondary indexes in distributed systems

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