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Re:Steve Huffman on Lessons Learned at Reddit by bh23ha on Saturday May 08, 2010 @08:07PM (#1331209)
Shouldn't lots of redundancy be a fundamental part of which ever db you are using.

As to extreme do-normalization, colour me sceptical, why not parallelise and throw more hardware at the problem?

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Re:Steve Huffman on Lessons Learned at Reddit by dalore on Sunday May 09, 2010 @07:21AM (#1331845)
Because it's more cost effective to de-normalize then to parallelise in this instance.
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Re:Steve Huffman on Lessons Learned at Reddit by jbellis on Sunday May 09, 2010 @06:56PM (#1332998)
Turns out it's difficult to parallelize without also denormalizing...
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