Strategy
Troubles with Sharding - What can we learn from the Foursquare Incident?
For everything given something seems to be taken. Caching is a great scalability solution, but caching also comes with problems. Sharding is a great scalability solution, but as Foursquare recently revealed in a post-mortem about their 17 hours of downtime, sharding also has problems. MongoDB, the database Foursquare uses, also