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posted by Jason Kottke

Part 2 of an ongoing series about how

Part 2 of an ongoing series about how databases are used in Web 2.0 apps. Both Bloglines and Memeorandum don’t bother with databases, opting for flat files instead.

Update: Here’s how Flickr does it. See also normalization is for sissies.

posted by Jason Kottke

New version of MySQL (5.0) now available. Download here.

New version of MySQL (5.0) now available. Download here.