It's interesting that the author wants to use stuff like Hadoop/Cassandra, products that are clones of Google's older gen. systems, and are certainly inferior.

It's interesting that the author wants to use stuff like Hadoop/Cassandra, products that are clones of Google's older gen. systems, and are certainly inferior. (Just download the latest Hadoop/Hbase, kill -9, and it all goes to hell with data loss.)