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<feed xml:lang="en-us" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><title>Simon Willison's Weblog: gizzard</title><link href="http://simonwillison.net/" rel="alternate"/><link href="http://simonwillison.net/tags/gizzard.atom" rel="self"/><id>http://simonwillison.net/</id><updated>2010-04-11T21:39:26+00:00</updated><author><name>Simon Willison</name></author><entry><title>twitter's gizzard</title><link href="https://simonwillison.net/2010/Apr/11/gizzard/#atom-tag" rel="alternate"/><published>2010-04-11T21:39:26+00:00</published><updated>2010-04-11T21:39:26+00:00</updated><id>https://simonwillison.net/2010/Apr/11/gizzard/#atom-tag</id><summary type="html">
    
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://github.com/twitter/gizzard"&gt;twitter&amp;#x27;s gizzard&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
Intriguing new open source project from Twitter. Gizzard is a sharding framework which provides a network service for partitioning data across arbitrary backend datastores, managing its own forwarding table to map key ranges to partitions and adding support for tree-based replication.

    &lt;p&gt;&lt;small&gt;&lt;/small&gt;Via &lt;a href="http://thechangelog.com/post/502232871/gizzard-twitter-just-sharded"&gt;The Changelog&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


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