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I actually wondered if they were running into issues with Cassandra. I'm not a NoSQL hater - but its still pretty bleeding edge and it always seemed like making
by mikeryan 16y ago
I actually wondered if they were running into issues with Cassandra. I'm not a NoSQL hater - but its still pretty bleeding edge and it always seemed like making it your core db was super risky.
arg - really want more insight, maybe Quinn will elaborate now that he's gone.
- leon_ 16y agoI've seen the "digg nation" video where they elaborate the whole cassandra thing; Kevin Rose said they had data corruption bugs a few days before deployment of the new system. I don't know but it sounds pretty insane to me to take an unproven, untested beta technology and make it the backbone of your site.