Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
So I’ve seen a few articles talking about how twitter released a new open source ‘Sharding Framework’ called Gizzard. It sounds interesting, but I really have no idea what a sharding framework is, and how that works.
Gizzard is not a storage engine, it is middleware that you use on top of whatever storage engine you want. I dont really understand how that can work, or make sharding any easier at this point.
Read more about what Gizzard is, and grab the source code from the gizzard project on github. Let me know if you can make any sense of it!
