honest opinion? smoke and mirrors. i really have no idea. i was surprised to see the latency drop when we started using the VIP's we assigned routing through our ec2 vyatta gateways. it makes it nice because it unties you from being 100% stuck on amazon. you can design your environment for cassandra with local nodes in an office if you wanted ... it also solved the security problems i was coming across in that before cassandra 0.8, intra-node communication IS NOT encrypted or secured....
anyway .. the biggest thing for me was to ensure we are not tied to one provider. this was the best for my business case....also allowed us to not be harmed by the https://twitter.com/#!/search/amazonpocalypse ... -sd On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 6:11 PM, Milind Parikh <milindpar...@gmail.com> wrote: > @Sasha > Very interesting that you find a big difference in latency between nodes. > Any hypothesis on what is going on in internal aws routing that makes it > inefficient? > Milind
