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For some reason this reminds me of the "no one has ever been fired for choosing IBM." slogan. I guess maybe there is some truth to it. Seems like new tech needs to start slow on big places, only startups really have the freedom to risk it all.
your post implies digg isn't a startup.
It's a change of features/product rather than technology that is the problem.
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your post implies digg isn't a startup.
Digg isn't a startup. It started in 2004 and has been mature for about 5 years. They are a business now. And a big one at that.
Is there any reason that Cassandra is the focus of this article? It is really silly and irresponsible to peg a nascent project like that without any reasoning or sources. I'm sure something changed besides just a Cassandra rollout, and wasn't Digg using it on v3 too? I think Cassandra is pretty well tested. There have been lots of super-large-scale deployments. It just seems lame to blame it on that, but I guess mayb…
Unless Digg cannot roll out new features due to Cassandra (eg: a) Cassandra woes taking all dev team time, or b) tech limitations prevent features) it seems highly unlikely that cassandra is the reason why Digg 4 is grating with users initially. It's a change of features/product rather than technology that is the problem.
Is there any reason that Cassandra is the focus of this article? It is really silly and irresponsible to peg a nascent project like that without any reasoning or sources. I'm sure something changed besides just a Cassandra rollout, and wasn't Digg using it on v3 too? I think Cassandra is pretty well tested. There have been lots of super-large-scale deployments. It just seems lame to blame it on that, but I guess mayb…
as far as I remember: yes they were using it on v3 too, for some things
I wonder what issues they are running into that a dark launch would not have found. As I have discovered painfully in my own projects, making big changes without a rollback plan is usually a bad idea, and it sounds like this is no exception.
I have to say I like the new Digg. Sad this guy is getting his career stomped on over it. Lot of people complain that the new site lets big sites submit their own content automatically, but how was it any different with a middle-man user submitting it himself?