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What is a hot shard problem?
Updated May 17, 2026
Short answer
A hot shard occurs when one partition receives disproportionate traffic.
Deep explanation
In sharded systems, uneven key distribution can overload one shard, causing performance bottlenecks and latency spikes.
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