That's not really a scaling problem though. It's an availability one. Cassandra just doesn't compromise on it. You have alternatives, and it doesn't really hav

That's not really a scaling problem though. It's an availability one. Cassandra just doesn't compromise on it. You have alternatives, and it doesn't really have to mean a whole lot of extra work until you get to "crazy" levels. No one wants a StrategyFactoryFactoryVisitorImpl, but on the other end of the spectrum you can get a ton of mileage out of a few Facades in the right place. Scalability is an optimization topic. But just like the premature saying everyone knows, the follow up that is less acknowledged is maybe the more important part (IMO).