Funny you mention Cassandra. That was another piece of hell-on-Earth for one of my teams to manage, even with a few seasoned SREs and database engineers. It is beautiful while it's working, it's hell to properly setup, configure and get it stable enough after ironing the quirks and gotchas.
Re:The Impending Cloud Reshuffle
by raffraffraff on Thursday December 02, 2021 @10:06AM
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Lol. I didn't just pick that example at random. I've been there too.
Ditto. I've seen ES / Cassandra cluster management casually dropped on a team who just happen to use an frontend that relies on them. Those are usually the most brittle, unloved databases in the world, and everyone on the team ends up walking away with the false impression that "X is a tire fire, never use it".