Hey Hussein
I have a 2 million row table used in my CRUD python app, I’m worried that as the table grow my inserts will slow down, should I consider sharding my database or partition the table? thank you
I’m avid of simplicity in design if I can do it in one machine I’ll do it. Sharding/Partitioning are all great
inserts are fast, queries are slow 0:00
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