What is sharding of Database?

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In This video, we discuss about Database Sharding, which is very important topic for system design.
Sharding a database is a common scalability strategy used when designing server side systems. The server side system architecture uses concepts like sharding to make systems more scalable, reliable and performant.
Sharding is horizontal partitioning of data according to a shard key.
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