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🧩 Partitioning (Sharding)

Breaking a large dataset into smaller subsets (partitions) assigned to different nodes to enable unlimited horizontal scaling.

🎯 Mastery Criteria

Student can identify a 'Hot Spot' (skewed workload) caused by poor partition key selection.

⚠️ Common Trap

Partitioning creates fault tolerance (it does not; Replication does).