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Four Lines That Decide the Storage
Oct 1, 2026

Four Lines That Decide the Storage

Rows per day, read-to-write ratio, lifetime and tenant isolation - four lines written before the first line of code. They decide between one table, partitions, application-level shards and a database per tenant. In a service where nothing is ever deleted and the code went from 1 751 to 61 411 lines in six days, discovering them in production is not a plan.

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