What is Database Sharding? System Design Interview

In this video I will be talking about Database Sharding. Sharding is the process of breaking up large tables into smaller chunks called shards that are spread across multiple servers. This topic is asked frequently in system design interviews. I will be covering following topics. 0:00 Intro 0:34 What is database sharding 1:54 Why do we need sharding 8:04 Types of sharding 8:09 Vertical sharding 10:19 Horizontal sharding 13:13 types of horizontal sharding 14:40 Outro If this video is helpful to you then please like share and subscribe, this helps the channel a lot.