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# Optimization

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 [![Dashboard-style cover showing an assignment-problem pipeline from objects and containers through specs to a local-search solver, with a 265,000-object, 12-second result](https://umesh-malik.com/blog/rebalance-shards-across-servers-cover.png)

Web Engineering • Sep 22, 2026

### Rebalance shards across servers in production: 265k objects in 12s

Rebalance shards across servers without hand-rolling a solver. Meta's Rebalancer places 265k objects in 12s p99 — and the MIP it replaces needs 848M variables.

8 min read

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