sharding
Americannoun
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Computers. the process or practice of dividing a database, network, blockchain, etc., into smaller fragments distributed across multiple network nodes.
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Digital Technology. the process or practice of dividing up an online multiplayer role-playing game having an unwieldy number of players, so that smaller groups of players are involved in separate games.
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Techniques such as sharding — in which certain groups of computers keep track of only certain transactions versus all transactions on the network — should help as well.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2019
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