Re:Pinterest's simple tech stack to scale to 11M monthly users
by Zanfa on Saturday December 23, 2023 @08:52AM
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I think they're referring to single-table data design as described in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaEPXoXVf2k It's quite clever and scales well, but completely unnecessary for the vast majority of CRUD apps.
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Re:Pinterest's simple tech stack to scale to 11M monthly users
by evntdrvn on Saturday December 23, 2023 @09:22AM
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IMO it’s also difficult when you’re in the initial phases of a new company/product, because the system is evolving fast and that doesn’t play nice with single-table-design needing upfront design to work well.
I have had much better luck sticking to a plain old relational DB stack for those phases, because it’s fast to iterate, and then consider moving to single-table NOSQL when the system/DDD has “gelled” and traffic is starting to hockey-stick