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by michael_dorfman 5589 days ago
One motivation for writing this post was that I was surprised to see how often the Facebook API will drop/omit data that exists and that you should be able to access.

I loved the article, but I'm a bit surprised that you're surprised. What else would you expect from a massive NoSQL installation? It seems to me a given that they are going to trade some data integrity (in the form of missing attributes) for speed of access. I'd assume that was a fundamental design goal of the architecture.