Hot Partitions & The Celebrity Problem

Hot shards, key salting, celebrity accounts, and detecting hot keys.

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Question Tags Difficulty Success

1. Sprinkle the Key

key-saltingwrite-sharding +1

Medium —

2. Averages Hide the Fire

hot-shard-detectionobservability +1

Medium —

3. Split Until You Cannot

hot-partitionhot-key +1

Hard —

4. Two Of A Hundred

shuffle-shardingblast-radius +2

Hard —

Learning Resources

AWS, designing partition keys to distribute load

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