I want you to examine the shard of glass.

Excellent. Now, I've got a shard of glass here, OK.

I used a microscopic shard of diamond to actually carve the actual base.

A lot of systems both shard and replicate your machines if you really want to get fancy.

And I sliced the little splinters of wood with a broken shard of glass, constructed this little apartment.

And he took a shard of something, and cut a piece of flesh from his thigh, and he placed it on ground.

She made a decision not to go and get a razor or a glass shard, but to devote her life to stopping that happening to other girls.

One of the things you can do is you can shard the database. This is a fairly simple approach, where instead of having one master you might have a couple that are all the same size, despite my drawing.

Maybe many of you have noticed this with loved ones, you can find somebody who can't recognize their face in the mirror, or can't tell anyone in their family, but you can still find a shard of music that that person will jump out of the chair and start singing.

What we're left with is a collection of five million books, 500 billion words, a string of characters a thousand times longer than the human genome a text which, when written out, would stretch from here to the Moon and back 10 times over a veritable shard of our cultural genome.

Remember we talked about with database as you can replicate them where you send the same data to multiple machines, which helps for load and durability this kind of picture here or you can shard them which is you send some chunk of data to one machine and another chunk of data to another.