If you want to see just how much Twitter uses Cassandra watch Chris Goffinet's awesome presentation at this years Cassandra SF meeting http://www.datastax.com/events/cassandrasf2011/presentations
Cheers ----------------- Aaron Morton Freelance Cassandra Developer @aaronmorton http://www.thelastpickle.com On 5/10/2011, at 8:16 AM, Paul Loy wrote: > yup, and again it gives a perfectly adequate reason: "Twitter is busy > fighting other fires and they don't have the time to retrofit something that > is (more or less) working, namely their MySQL based tweet storage, with a > completely new technology based on Cassandra." > > If I was in charge of platform at twitter I'd have probably made the same > call. If it aint broke, don't spend $100ks fixing it. Push out new features > that help keep you ahead of the competition. > > I really don't see anything in the closet here. It's just a simple resource > management issue. > > On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 11:43 AM, ruslan usifov <ruslan.usi...@gmail.com> > wrote: > Hello > > 2011/10/4 Paul Loy <ketera...@gmail.com> > Did you read the article you posted? > Yes > > "We believe that this isn't the time to make large scale migration to a new > technology. We will focus our Cassandra work on new projects that we wouldn't > be able to ship without a large-scale data store. > > > There was big boom in network about, that Tweeter will migrate they tweets to > cassandra, but than they reject this plans. This explanation sounds very > vague. Why they have changed the mind? I find only one article about this: > > http://highscalability.com/blog/2010/7/11/so-why-is-twitter-really-not-using-cassandra-to-store-tweets.html > > > > > > > -- > --------------------------------------------- > Paul Loy > p...@keteracel.com > http://uk.linkedin.com/in/paulloy
