Reddit CTO: Stick to Boring Tech When Building Your Startup

Re:Reddit CTO: Stick to Boring Tech When Building Your Startup by jjirsa on Tuesday May 31, 2016 @01:04AM (#11804696)

> 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]

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Re:Reddit CTO: Stick to Boring Tech When Building Your Startup by continuational on Tuesday May 31, 2016 @02:33AM (#11805036)

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.

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Re:Reddit CTO: Stick to Boring Tech When Building Your Startup by arsenide on Tuesday May 31, 2016 @01:45AM (#11804863)

Thanks, makes sense!

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