What was the reasoning behind ""Index creation no longer defaults to five shard but one shard"
So far, the assumption was , more shards = more scalability = more parallelism
Isnt that change defeating the whole purpose of distributed systems like ES ?
A lot of users use time-based indices and this setting led to a lot of systems being severely oversharded which caused a lot of problems. From that perspective 1 is a much better default.
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