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Google thinks that you can scale only if you use their infrastructure: BigTable + Python/Java and MapReduce when needed. It seems that when you're purchased by

by nickb 18y ago

Google thinks that you can scale only if you use their infrastructure: BigTable + Python/Java and MapReduce when needed. It seems that when you're purchased by Google, you immediately stop working on the "old" codebase and you start transitioning and rewriting everything into Python/Java. This has happened to both YouTube and Jaiku. Now, YouTube transition has been successful and Jaiku... no one even remembers it.

akd 18y ago
It's not that they think that there's only one way to scale, but they only want one way in their company, so they can spend all their resources on optimizing that one architecture.