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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.



Very likely a monolith database (the sharding gives it away) that uses a multi-tenant architecture (`WHERE account_id = ?`)




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