Rails 6.1 was released as a stable build not so long ago. One of the features I was interested in is the support for sharding.
In this video I take my first look at it.

00:00 Introduction
01:00 Setup
02:30 What is Sharding?
06:00 Configure and Create the DBs
08:35 Put data in the database
09:10 Create a model
09:50 Migrate & Seed data
11:40 Setup ApplicationRecord
14:00 Use a shard
17:00 Advanced shard selection
19:30 Wrap up

You can read about what sharding is here: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/understanding-database-sharding

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