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A comment on Batsd: 37 Signals' Ruby Statsd implementation persisting to Redis. Parent comment

Re:Batsd: 37 Signals' Ruby Statsd implementation persisting ... by mattyb on Wednesday May 30, 2012 @11:40PM (#4046233)
While graphite at least tried to mimic the RRDTool file-format 37signals just skips over that whole "complicated binary-stuff" and writes the data as newline-delimited ascii-text...

What benefit lies in trying to mimic RRDTool's file format?

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Re:Batsd: 37 Signals' Ruby Statsd implementation persisting ... by moe on Thursday May 31, 2012 @05:55AM (#4047233)
Scalability.
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