@BenjDicken: Query planning is hard. Doing so in a massive, sharded database is even harder. The blog we published today at PlanetSc…
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A blog post from PlanetScale discusses the challenges of query planning in massive, sharded databases, aiming to educate readers on database query planners.
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Query planning is hard.
Doing so in a massive, sharded database is even harder.
The blog we published today at PlanetScale was a labor of love. So many people from across the company helped with technical accuracy, writing, visuals, and making it the best it can be.
This was so much fun to be a part of. Go read. Get a little better at database query planners this evening.
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