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		rwultsch on Dec 23, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How Pinterest scaled 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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