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Sharding

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Slack Jul 22, 2025

Outgrowing the Workspace: Slack's Move to Fine-Grained Sharding

How Slack's original one-workspace-per-shard data model buckled under Enterprise Grid and giant workspaces, and why finer-grained sharding replaced it.

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Uber Jul 15, 2025

Ringpop: Sharding Uber's Stateful Services Without a Central Coordinator

How Uber's Ringpop library used consistent hashing and a gossip protocol to shard stateful services without depending on a single coordinator.

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