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Processing and storage responsibility for a data set may be split according to separately stored shards of the data set. As one or more loads associated with shards of the dataset grow a re-sharding operation may be performed to reduce loading of particular shards and nodes that host the particular shards. A re-sharding operation may cause only a sub-set of as set of shards of the dataset to be split and only cause second portions of the split shards to be stored in additional computing nodes. In some embodiments, a number of shards to be included in the sub-set of shards to be split may be selected based on an overall number of shards in the set and a largest number in the Fibonacci sequence that is less than the overall number of shards in the set.
