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Inverse-Conway-Maneuver: How to speed up product development teams successfully
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- The number of partitions is fixed at the time of the index creation. Each partition is an indivisible chunk of data which can grow in size but not be split into smaller chunks. As the data grows, more nodes may be added to the cluster, but the number of partitions which eventually move to the newer nodes are limited (Fig 3)
- In some sense, as the
Improving query performance in ElasticSearch at scale
The formula in Fig 5 is one of the reasons why Elasticsearch does not allow the update of the number of primary shards post index creation. What the default routing guarantees is that the data will be uniformly distributed across the cluster which would reduce query hotspots when retrieving documents