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And let me tell you how awkward that was knowing that I was going to post this today! And not being able to say anything.
I was at your talk and gotta give you all props for trying out pretty much every new technology under the sun -- from all the Amazon services, to memcachedb, to Cassandra. And for sharing what went wrong with various components.
Well, one of the ways we try to stay lean is by using new technologies that solve problems so we didn't have to. I guess this was a nice side effect.