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As Digg Struggles, VP Of Engineering Is Shown The Door

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Re: As Digg Struggles, VP Of Engineering Is Shown The Door

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I'm really interested to see what comes of this and what went wrong. It sounds like (from reading his blog) they were making a lot of customizations to Cassandra?

They have made many feature additions to Cassandra.

They haven't said much about the details of why they are having trouble.

It could be a core Cassandra problem, something they added, or completely unrelated to Cassandra; But the internet doesn't care. It's drama at its finest.

Re: As Digg Struggles, VP Of Engineering Is Shown The Door

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I actually wondered if they were running into issues with Cassandra. I'm not a NoSQL hater - but its still pretty bleeding edge and it always seemed like making it your core db was super risky.

arg - really want more insight, maybe Quinn will elaborate now that he's gone.

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