Google could have killed Facebook

Article note: Eesh. It's such a tale of the modern tech industry. Facebook's ad-tech panel, responsible for at least a quarter of their revenue, was a disaster of legacy Javascript being maintained by one engineer until someone looking for a ladder to climb noticed it was dependent on the deprecated WebSQL API (...and said API was deprecated because the other webhipsters were like "Nooo, SQLite backing isn't exciting enough, let's standardize on NoSQL instead") and re-wrote it with a newer generation of hipster tools.