Any service that has lots of relationships between users and their data has a problem. Data needs to be denormalized to prevent having to do lots of joins when performing queries. But this means the system has increased write traffic due. Enter Cassandra.

You must be kidding. Why would anyone impose anything so ridiculous as this? Remember dataportability.org is only marketing technologies it doesn’t develop anything. Sign.

Chris Anderson’s recent article ‘The End of Theory’ is so exaggerated as to become a monument worthy of analysis… There is so much wrong with this, intellectually and politically, it’s difficult to know where to start.

As the old adage goes, normalize until it hurts, denormalize until it works.