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aaronblohowiak on Feb 27, 2009 | parent | context | favorite | on: How FriendFeed uses MySQL to store schema-less dat...

Edge-Case YAGNI. Have lots of shards, put multiple shards on each machine, shuffle the shards around as necessary. Rinse. Repeat.

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