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> Then you see the likes of Twitter a decade or more ago who dedicated possibly hundreds of engineers to make Cassandra work. That's doing Google shit. But they
by Cpoll 7mo ago
> Then you see the likes of Twitter a decade or more ago who dedicated possibly hundreds of engineers to make Cassandra work. That's doing Google shit. But they aren't Google. And eventually those chickens come home to roost.
Isn't it the other way around? Using off-the-shelf solutions like Cassandra didn't work, so they had to resort to doing actual Google shit, a custom solution, to meet their needs.
- jmyeet 7mo agoLook at Facebook/Meta. They use MySQL (plus some other stuff on top). Twitter was at the peak of being trendy and trying to make NoSQL work. It was quite literally an idoelogical vanity project.
- Cpoll 7mo agoFacebook invented Cassandra, so I don't get your point. And Twitter wasn't exactly a WordPress site doing a needless vanity migration. I don't think "use MySQL" really means the same thing at that scale.