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Why geohash grids create hot shards

A step-by-step account of how uniform spatial grids fail on non-uniform populations, why quadtrees fail differently, and the three production fixes.

Yelp — Proximity Service

Why uniform grids create hot shards, H3 and S2 hierarchical indexes, multi-attribute filtering with inverted indexes, boundary queries, and swapping a spatial index with zero downtime.