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Andreas Holt
Software Engineer I @ Uber
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Introducing Shard Manager

· 12 min read
Jakob Haahr Taankvist
Senior Software Engineer @ Uber
Andreas Holt
Software Engineer I @ Uber
Gaziza Yestemirova
Software Engineer II @ Uber
Jan Kisel
Staff Software Engineer @ Uber

Shard Manager is a new standalone, general-purpose sharding service. It provides near-optimal load-aware placement. It reduced CPU utilization on the hottest Matching host by 38%. And it provides a centralized view of shard ownership and placement.