Manual database sharding is hard. But it doesn't have to be that way. In this series focused on how you can simplify your software stack, our Technical Evangelist Rob Reid walks through this painful process firsthand so you don't have to. Rob starts at one node before scaling to two, three, and eventually six. You'll get a full comparison of CockroachDB vs Postgres when it comes to scaling, see what manual sharding actually looks like, get an inside look at how manual database sharding impacts latency, and why CockroachDB can make horizontal sharding of data to achieve scale so much simpler.