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Lessons Learned Building Reddit - Steve Huffman at FOWA Miami

• japherwocky 17y ago
  Heh, so #3 is basically using a NoSQL approach with traditional SQL tech?
  • joshstaiger 17y ago
    Friendfeed did something similar: http://bret.appspot.com/entry/how-friendfeed-uses-mysql http://bret.appspot.com/entry/how-friendfeed-uses-mysql
  • ehsanul 17y ago
    Using MongoDB also solves this problem, with an arguably cleaner approach.
  • danbmil99 17y ago
    yeah I was just going to say that. Why the F deal with the overhead of a relational database only to use it for key/value pairs? Is it just so mature that it's not worth it to trust anything else?