I recently heard a rumor that the big guy up north was making some big changes to how he does his big gift to kid matching algorithm. As we all know, Santa got NoSQL long ago, using the flexibility of the schema and matching to streamline one of the biggest problems in all of computing: how to take a list of kids, sort them out and see who gets the goodies and who gets the coal.

So what was happening up North? It turns out that Santa is, as usual, way ahead of the curve …

Through a secret