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I still think of Cassandra as the tool the Digg engineers used to kill Digg as we all loved/hated it at it's time.
by baldfat 11y ago
I still think of Cassandra as the tool the Digg engineers used to kill Digg as we all loved/hated it at it's time.
- samkone 11y agoIf a company blames its demise on a piece of tech, then they either need better engineers to change that tech. Or the product had no future at all. And Cassandra has changed a lot since then.
- baldfat 11y agoWhat I said still is true. Digg USED Cassandra to destroy itself. They changed business plans and removed the community with a ton of down time and a loss of data. I agree it wasn't Tech fault for Kevin Rose allowing VCs to control Digg, but there were issues with Cassandra and especially during the SQL vs NoSQL debate at its highest levels.
- takeda 11y agoThe demise of digg was purely due to them making a silly decision that articles were submitted automatically from third parties and users activity was pretty much reduced to voting on them. This generated huge backlash and made most users migrate to reddit.