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Re:MongoDB's lead developer: Foursquare outage post mortem by harryh on Thursday October 07, 2010 @10:02PM (#1770302)
Unfortunately we have some badges that require more than just the venueid + timestamp, but some sort of "compressed" checkin format is something we'll probably end up looking at.
Re:MongoDB's lead developer: Foursquare outage post mortem by rbranson on Thursday October 07, 2010 @10:15PM (#1770331)
Bummer. It's really amazing how 1 seemingly simple (but quite important and engagement driving) feature like instant gratification badges can drive your architecture decisions and keep you guys up at night.