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Kyle Hailey
Personal blog · kylehailey.comdataprogramming
Kyle Hailey's personal blog at kylehailey.com covers data and programming. Since 2013, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-01-13, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN commenters link this post on social network database schema design and performance, covering problems faced by sites like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.
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What Hacker News says?
Putting together a social network schema and keeping performance in check is less than evident. It's a problem that many have to tackle such as facebook, twitter, linkedin, flickr etc. Here is a blog article discussing some of the issues and approaches: http://www.kylehailey.com/facebook-schema-and-peformance/
Comment linking /facebook-schema-and-peformance/
on “Why You Should Never Use MongoDB”Submitted AAS: The Metric for Monitoring DB Performance as a story · 2 points
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HN discussionSubmitted AAS: The Metric for Monitoring DB Performance as a story · 1 points
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