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How FriendFeed uses MySQL to store schema-less data – Bret Taylor’s blog – Annotated
- hi – post by joel
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As our database has grown, we have tried to iteratively deal with the scaling issues that come with rapid growth. We did the typical things, like using read slaves and memcache to increase read throughput and sharding our database to improve write throughput. However, as we grew, scaling our existing features to accomodate more traffic turned out to be much less of an issue than adding new features.
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