xpect to eventually introduce intelligent sharding such that Mixer instances become slightly specialized in
handling particular data streams in order to increase the likelihood of cache hits. In other words, sharding helps improve cache
efficiency by routing related traffic to the same Mixer instance over time, rather than randomly dispatching to
any available Mixer instance.</p>
<h2 id="conclusion">Conclusion</h2>
<p>Practical experience at Google showed that the model of a slim sidecar proxy and a large s