This article was originally published on AI Study Room . For the full version with working code examples and related articles, visit the original post. Database Sharding Strategies: Partitioning, Consistent Hashing, and Real-World Patterns Database sharding is how you scale a database beyond what a single server can handle — splitting data across multiple independent database instances. While managed databases have made sharding less common for new projects, understanding sharding is critical for system design interviews, working at scale, and architecting systems that will eventually need it. This guide covers the theory and practice of database sharding.…