[kache_]

Reading the Zanzibar paper is actually how I learned about how powerful of an optimization technique denormalization could be

[ogazitt]

It's definitely a good paper :)

Denormalization has been around since Date/Codd invented 6NF and relational databases, and then we all realized that most applications have to precompute some joins in order to execute in a performant fashion. In SQL Server we used to call them "materialized views".