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Dude, I sharded (part 2)

In the last article I talked in depth about ndb Keys, entity groups, ancestor queries, and all that; so much that maybe we all forgot why?

Why we care about ndb Keys is that they are always present as the handle to an ndb object, and they are ordinal (albeit…


Are you the Keymaster?

In the last article I showed how you can use adaptive sharding (Sharding Inception!) and @task to visit n Datastore…


Note: Since this article was written, CloudPickle has been updated to do everything that YCCloudPickle was created to do. I now use CloudPickle in all circumstances, and recommend you use it to. This article remains for historical interest only.

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