Tweet !function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=”//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js”;fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,”script”,”twitter-wjs”); Some of our specific challenges of the denormalization process were: 1. Dozens of legacy data formats that evolved over years. Peter Ondruška, a Facebook summer intern, defined a custom language to concisely express our data format conversion rules and wrote a compiler to turn this into runnable PHP. Three “data archeologists” wrote the conversion [...]