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		choult on April 18, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Load Balancing That's called sharding; this can be achieved with any load balancer worth its salt.

lucideer on April 18, 2023 [–]

This is called sharding, but the question is more about the assignment algorithm(s) supported by the sharding algorithms, which are not always flexible enough to support the gp's suggestion.

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