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Demonstrating Hot Shard Detection (and Why a Tablet Can Refuse to Split)

Jim KnicelyFebruary 24, 2026

You may see a tablet growing large and repeatedly attempting to split… only to fail with errors like: TABLET_SPLIT_KEY_RANGE_TOO_SMALL Failed to detect […]

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Exploring Range Tablet Placement (and Which Split Point Created Each Tablet)

Jim KnicelyFebruary 24, 2026

In a previous tip, we explored how yb_tablet_metadata makes it easy to see tablet leadership and replica placement across a YugabyteDB cluster. […]

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Does DDL Block DML? (It Depends on Table-Level Locks)

Jim KnicelyFebruary 12, 2026

🧭 What You’ll Learn ● Why DDL may not block DML in YugabyteDB by default ● How behavior changes when table-level locks […]

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Visualizing Tablet Distribution with Real Row Counts in YugabyteDB

Jim KnicelyFebruary 11, 2026

TL;DR This tip introduces yb-topology-viewer, a lightweight demo application that helps you visualize how data is actually distributed across a YugabyteDB cluster […]

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