[smokingfrog]

Translation?

[Cringing Negativism Network]

I think it means spaghetti code.

But in query form.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

IOW....it would be a ‘hacker’s delight’???

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Translation?

Facebook started their enterprise using a database called MySQL. (SQL is an an acronym meaning Structured Query Language)
They didn't see the potential of their enterprise and stuck with MySQL and when the thing expanded exponentially they were caught unawares. Call it a lack of vision.

Now, their database isn't beefy enough (supposedly) to handle all the daily transactions it must deal with. They are breaking the thing down into smaller chunks so it doesn't slow to a crawl and piss off the kiddies who simply MUST get their Facebook fix every 5 minutes.
Or something like that.

The should have migrated to Oracle a long time ago.

[andyk]

Translation?

An unimaginably large (possibly the largest commercial dataset on the planet) amount of data, and the technical complexities of updating and retrieving data quickly, all while providing for continuity and fault tolerance, and scaling for massive growth.

I bet this post is stored in a MySQL database.

[ctdonath2]

Translation?

They have to demolish the building and put up another which looks exactly the same but which won’t spontaneously implode like the first one is about to.