sharding

Splitting a database into several pieces, usually to improve the speed and reliability of your application.

Sharding strictly speaking is a synonym for "horizontal partitioning" or dividing up a database table by its rows.

In common use, sharding refers to having some data for an app on one database server, and other data in another. Often this is done by having specific tables hosted on specific servers, with a function determining which server contains the information being requested.

Sharding is frequently discussed with regard to large web based applications, but is not limited to any particular industry.

As a practical example, a WordPress MultiSite installation hosting several hundred thousand blogs could have the tables for sites 1-100,000 running on one database server 100,001-200,000 on another or 200,001+ on a third. An alternative sharding implementation could be to have the 50 busiest blogs' tables split between the first two servers all remaining blog data on the third server. Likewise, data could be partitioned based upon the geographic location of the web servers delivering each blog.

When our site became so popular it kept overwhelming our database servers, we looked into sharding the database between five different data centers.

by Brian Layman June 20, 2011

Sharing is Caring

Kindergarten communism

Best response is a Liberty Prime Quote like “Death is a Preferable Alternative to Communism”

Person 1 eating candy
Person 2 can I have some
Person 1 no
Person 2 Sharing is Caring

Person 1 BETTER DEAD THAN RED

by Liberty Prime’s Canadian bro December 29, 2019

sharking

The practice that is popular in Japan that involves the pulling down of unsuspecting women's tops in public exposing their breasts, known as "topsharking", whereas "lowsharking" involves the pulling down down of unsuspecting women's panties in public.

Wow, did you see the sharking of that young girl? Her boobs were totally exposed to the public!

by bobbyrice January 12, 2007

sharting spider

A sharting spider is a particularly heinous sub-specie of the "Barking Spider" in that it's defense method is not just a warning signal and fowl smell, but also warns potential predators with a deposit of substance known by naturalists as 'beware brown'. They are particularly fond of burrowing in 'tighty whiteys'.

subject 1: (Notices subject 2's dirty underwear on the floor) "Woah! Either you never learned to wipe your ass or you were born without a sphincter!"

Subject 2: "What?....No...I'm dealing with an infestation of Sharting Spiders. That wasn't me!"

by Prince of dorkness June 21, 2010

sharing a blanket

a term which refers to one person eating out the other

Joseph was sharing a blanket with julia

by 🖕🏻😊🖕🏻 June 28, 2016

Shartington

An exclamation of grave misfortune; a poopy situiation. Shartington originates from the British Isles on the hamlet of Shartington, from which the term proliferated following World War Two.

Friend 1: Oh no! I seem to have found myself in a real tricky pickle of a situation!
Friend 2: Shartington!

by CalvinAlexanderRossTaylor69 March 28, 2022

Poot-Sharting

When one is unsure whether or not they are defecating or being fartaceous. Poot-sharting can be a somewhat scary experience for those poot-sharting. Poot-sharting is also very rarely used with correct verb conjugation and is often purposefully used in defiance of English grammar.

“Uhhhh… Jombly… I uhhh…. I poot-sharting!”

“Ah man. I poot-sharting again.”

“I forgot to poot-sharted today.”

by Rad Parker December 21, 2021