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Re:The Architecture of Schemaless, Uber Engineering’s Trip D... by danbruc on Monday January 18, 2016 @04:43PM (#10927208)
Color me skeptical, that looks like a pretty strange design to me, a database on top of a database [1].

[1] http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?GodTable

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Re:The Architecture of Schemaless, Uber Engineering’s Trip D... by jkovacs on Monday January 18, 2016 @05:39PM (#10927540)
Agreed, the design immediately reminded me of the following ancient DailyWTF article, one of the few ones that stuck in my head ever since I read it. They called it the "Inner-Platform Effect" - might apply here.

http://thedailywtf.com/articles/The_Inner-Platform_Effect

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