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Database Sharding System Design Interview: The Pizza Night Story Engineers Never Forget

How one overloaded pizza database explains sharding, partition keys, hotspots, replication, and interview-ready scaling tradeoffs

A story-driven guide to database sharding for system design interviews, covering partition keys, scaling bottlenecks, tradeoffs, failures, and the mental model senior engineers use under pressure.

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