What is a shard in a discord bot?

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1 22020-11-01 11:36:21

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1 2, 2020-11-01 11:36:21

Can you explain in simple terms what it means to shard a bot on discord?

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Alexander, 2020-11-01
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Sharding (horizontal partitioning) is a database design principle in which logically independent rows of a database table are stored separately, grouped in advance into sections, which, in turn, are located on different, physically and logically independent database servers, with one physical a cluster node can contain multiple database servers.

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