Archive For March 1, 2009

FriendFeed use of MySQL

I collect postings on high-scale service architectures, scaling war stories, and interesting implementation techniques. For past postings see Scaling Web Sites and Scaling LinkedIn. Last week Bret Taylor posted an interesting description of the FriendFeed backend storage architecture: How FriendFeed uses MySQL to store Schema-less Data. Friendfeed faces a subset of what I’ve called the…

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