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··· 237 237 238 238 How the hell does aggregation work?! 239 239 240 - Since every user's records live in *that user's* repository, there are millions (potentially billions?) of repositories. How can an app efficiently query, sort, filter, and aggregate information from them? Surely it can't search them on demand. 240 + Since every user's records live in *that user's* repository, there could be millions (potentially billions?) of repositories. How can an app efficiently query, sort, filter, and aggregate information from them? Surely it can't search them on demand. 241 241 242 242 I've previously used a CMS as an analogy--for example, a blogging app could directly write posts to your repository and then read posts from it when someone visits your blog. This "singleplayer" use case would not require aggregation at all. 243 243