db-replication-sharding

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SKILL.md

DB Replication Sharding

Overview

Use this skill to design data topology that scales safely without hiding consistency and operability costs.

Scope Boundaries

  • Throughput, storage, or availability limits exceed single-instance capacity.
  • Read/write scaling requires replication or partitioning.
  • Regional or tenant growth pressures topology redesign.

Core Judgments

  • Replication mode and consistency expectations for read paths.
  • Shard key strategy and future rebalancing feasibility.
  • Cross-shard query/transaction requirements.
  • Failover behavior and recovery-time expectations.

Practitioner Heuristics

  • Choose shard keys by access locality and growth distribution, not by convenience.
  • Read replicas are eventually consistent systems; classify which reads can tolerate lag.
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