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Calculations run on this device. Scenario values are not sent anywhere — the engine is fully local.

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Shard-Key Heatmap

Distribute keys by hash and by range and watch the hot shard glow.

How skewed is celebrity data across 16 shards?

Engine 1.0.0 · calculation
2128
090
k
11000
100100000
Hot shard QPS
4375
Cold shard QPS
375
Imbalance
×11.67
Keys / shard
6250

Hot key dominates — consider salting or splitting the key.

16 shards, hot 40% of 10000 qps

Method

  • Deterministic local model of the mechanism — knobs recompute outputs instantly with no network.
  • Numbers are teaching approximations, not production capacity guarantees.