Re:Reddit CTO: Stick to Boring Tech When Building Your Startup
by arsenide on Tuesday May 31, 2016 @12:16AM
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Why are you choosing Cassandra every time? And what's your refutation for his desire to use MySQL over some other database, from his point of view as presented in the article (e.g. availability of support via Google/SO)?
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Re:Reddit CTO: Stick to Boring Tech When Building Your Startup
by jjirsa on Tuesday May 31, 2016 @01:04AM
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> Why are you choosing Cassandra every time?
Linear horizontal scaling (double capacity? double # of nodes), no SPOF, Active/Active/Active cross-WAN HA.
> And what's your refutation for his desire to use MySQL over some other database, from his point of view as presented in the article (e.g. availability of support via Google/SO)?
Hire people that can learn DB internals and be the expert you want to see in the world: http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=user:4774369+[cassandra]
Re:Reddit CTO: Stick to Boring Tech When Building Your Startup
by continuational on Tuesday May 31, 2016 @02:33AM
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Short of inherent big data problems, such as crawling the entire web, you won't need database scaling until you're already not a startup any more.
Cassandra and similar technologies constrain your queries and make schema changes incredibly expensive. This is the opposite of what you need in a startup. You need flexibility.