Subject Re: [Firebird-Architect] when cassandra NoSQL fails
Author Dimitry Sibiryakov
09.09.2010 12:42, marius adrian popa wrote:
> http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/07/digg-struggles-vp-engineering-door/
>
> Digg was originally built on the tried-and-true LAMP stack (Linux,
> Apache, MySQL, PHP) of open-source technologies, but it was straining
> under the load of Digg’s traffic. Replacing MySQL with Cassandra was
> supposed to help fix that. It came with its own set of larger problems
> instead.

This is common mistake - rush into new technology instead of fixing problems in old code.
MySQL+PHP has low enter barrier. It means that there is a lot of programmers and admins
on trade market who can produce such a load of crap.
The fact that Digg all of sudden switched to version 4 without proper testing and is
unable to rollback can be a proof of the developers' quality.
Another funny thing that John Quinn chose Cassandra instead of Oracle.

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