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The article doesn't seem to say what type of database they moved to, I'd like to imagine it's an excel spreadsheet...
The problem with the spreadsheet was rate limiting by Google. I like to imagine the have the spreadsheet copy and pasted. Then split the requests to two different spreadsheets, doubling the amount of requests they can do.
Dear god, parallelized excel spreadsheet databases!