As Digg Struggles, VP Of Engineering Is Shown The Door
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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
#2Queue NoACID haters declaring this the final nail in the coffin.
Re: As Digg Struggles, VP Of Engineering Is Shown The Door
#3Queue NoACID haters declaring this the final nail in the coffin.
This isn't Digg.
Re: As Digg Struggles, VP Of Engineering Is Shown The Door
#4I'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?
Re: As Digg Struggles, VP Of Engineering Is Shown The Door
#5Digg turned into nothing but a paid distribution and SEO engine anyway
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#6This man's reputation is on the line. I hope they release more details on what exactly it is that is causing the problem. As it stands he appears to be an unfortunate scapegoat.
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#7I'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
#8digg was dead to me when they introduced their stupid "digg bar" that framed every website.
Re: As Digg Struggles, VP Of Engineering Is Shown The Door
#9Digg turned into nothing but a paid distribution and SEO engine anyway
when was it something different?
Re: As Digg Struggles, VP Of Engineering Is Shown The Door
#10I 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.