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		bh23ha on May 9, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Steve Huffman on Lessons Learned at Reddit Shouldn't lots of redundancy be a fundamental part of which ever db you are using. As to extreme do-normalization, colour me sceptical, why not parallelise and throw more hardware at the problem?

dalore on May 9, 2010 | [–]

Because it's more cost effective to de-normalize then to parallelise in this instance.

jbellis on May 9, 2010 | [–]

Turns out it's difficult to parallelize without also denormalizing...

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