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x87678r
on June 25, 2020
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DHH: The HEY stack Vanilla Ruby on Rails, MySQL, r...
how does MySQL work for a site like this? I think he said its one instance. Do they have a table for each account?
Also is every mail stored in a row? Attachments too? That isn't how I'd expect it.
Axsuul
on June 25, 2020
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Very likely a monolith database (the sharding gives it away) that uses a multi-tenant architecture (`WHERE account_id = ?`)
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Also is every mail stored in a row? Attachments too? That isn't how I'd expect it.