“…we decided to have message threading right from the get-go… there’s some B-trees involved…”

Peter Mattis · The Pragmatic Engineer · Distributed databases with Peter Mattis

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used B-trees to store thread IDs, unread counts and enable fast message threading in early Gmail

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