From 7 years ago, by Bret Taylor (who went on to become CTO at Facebook after acquisition): How FriendFeed uses MySQL to store schema-less data https://backcha

From 7 years ago, by Bret Taylor (who went on to become CTO at Facebook after acquisition): How FriendFeed uses MySQL to store schema-less data https://backchannel.org/blog/friendfeed-schemaless-mysql https://backchannel.org/blog/friendfeed-schemaless-mysql Edit to add the HN discussion at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=496946 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=496946