How do you make 768 servers look like 1? The answer is sharding. I wrote about *why* it's needed and *how* it's achieved for Postgres and MySQL. It's a fun one. Link below.↗

I got "how did you make these diagrams?" a lot yesterday. BTS time! Most began their life as static drawings in Excalidraw. It's helpful to nail down layout and visual goals before jumping into animation. Here's what they looked like: Next step, Cursor 🧵↗