The hotel industry is full of big scale engineering challenges. One of them is how to manage the large volume of hotel rate updates while making reading them fast. In this article on Build Tonight, the HotelTonight team will show you how we’ve built an append-only, distributed, schemaless data store built on top of MySQL. Once our solution was battle-tested in production, we extracted it to a gem. That’s how Shameless was born.

https://build.hoteltonight.com/a-shameless-plug-for-shameless-engineering-our-schemaless-data-store-681df9008512#.esj4zk3lx