SubscribeMRI Ruby + MySQL + Threads == Stop the world… JRuby doesn’t
As we have been internally discussing how to scale our databases from 10’s of millions of rows to 100’s of millions, database sharding came up.
Depending on your data model and your application, sharding data into tables by some natural key is great if any given request uses only one shard. FiveRun’s DataFabric seems [...]
