Dynamic bitwise sharding of live stream comment groups

An apparatus comprising:

• a memory;
• and
• a processing device coupled to the memory, the processing device to:
• identify a set of sharding parameters comprising a number of user groups and a set of attributes for each user group, wherein the set of sharding parameters specifies a number of most significant bits,
• define one or more shards based on the number of user groups, a shard identifier being associated with each of the one or more shards, and wherein the shard identifier comprises a binary number,
• create a user group based on the set of sharding parameters,
• in response to determining that a number of users in the created group exceeds a maximum number of users, modify the set of sharding parameters by increasing the number of most significant bits, and
• generate one or more modified groups based on the modified set of sharding parameters.

A non-transitory computer readable storage medium having instructions that, when executed by a processing device, cause the processing device to perform operations comprising:

• identifying a set of sharding parameters comprising a number of user groups and a set of attributes for each user group, wherein the set of sharding parameters specifies a number of most significant bits;
• defining, by the processing device, one or more shards based on the number of user groups, a shard identifier being associated with each of the one or more shards, and wherein the shard identifier comprises a binary number;
• creating a user group based on the set of sharding parameters;
• in response to determining that a number of users in the created group exceeds a maximum number of users, modifying the set of sharding parameters by increasing the number of most significant bits;
• and
• generating one or more modified groups based on the modified set of sharding parameters.