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Re:Pinterest's simple tech stack to scale to 11M monthly users by rwultsch on Saturday December 23, 2023 @10:48AM (#38745066)
A pin was a 1.2 KB json blob. There were other tables but pins was the big one. Why MySQL? It did not destroy data like the alternatives.

how storage became efficient https://medium.com/pinterest-engineering/evolving-mysql-comp... https://medium.com/pinterest-engineering/evolving-mysql-comp...

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