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How to Simulate Colocated Shard Joins in Python

Groups shards by their node and merges co-located shards into a single logical unit, checking capacity constraints.

sharding database distributed-systems
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import random
from collections import defaultdict


def simulate_colocated_shards_join(nodes: list[dict], shards: list[dict]) -> dict:
    """
    Simulates the join of co-located shards (on the same node) into a single
    logical shard. Returns the resulting node-to-shard mapping.

    Each node: {'id': str, 'capaci…
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