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I assume: serving content that doesn't change often (videos) and mostly needs to be available. Recording user scores and aggregating their effect later (last write win means you could update the score a second time and the first time only would be recorded - which is annoying but not end-of-the-world).

Likely if they have things that require stronger consistency they use another DB.



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