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Call me maybe: Aerospike

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Re: Call me maybe: Aerospike

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The rotated A in the Aerospike logo reminds me of a system that's fallen over, and now you can't unsee it: http://www.aerospike.com/

My co-worker glanced at my screen and thought I was reading about erospike, which has a decidedly different feel, especially given the phallic imagery on the page.

Re: Call me maybe: Aerospike

#13

The rotated A in the Aerospike logo reminds me of a system that's fallen over, and now you can't unsee it: http://www.aerospike.com/

Really? When I look at it I only see an eye (viewed in profile) with the legs of the A being eye lashes.

Re: Call me maybe: Aerospike

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post #10

Awesome read and still quite impressed by Aerospike.

What is impressive about being somewhat misleading and cutting corners to gain performance?

As said by Aphyr this product is ideal in the ad-tech. Of course is misleading but good engs will test products to see if it fit their scenario without basing decision on marketing slides. Yes, ideally they should be more clear and I bet after this article they will.

Re: Call me maybe: Aerospike

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post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What is impressive about being somewhat misleading and cutting corners to gain performance?

As said by Aphyr this product is ideal in the ad-tech. Of course is misleading but good engs will test products to see if it fit their scenario without basing decision on marketing slides. Yes, ideally they should be more clear and I bet after this article they will.

As said by Aphyr this product is ideal in the ad-tech

No, Aphyr said the data loss is ok for ad tracking and analytics because it doesn't matter. That's very different.

And if that's the case, then why make those claims.. they could just as easily give accurate info to their customers, and the customer could decide if that fits their case. Instead they claim something very difficult (if not impossible), and let their customers find out it's not true (possibly after it's too late, and they've already lost valuable data).

Re: Call me maybe: Aerospike

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I currently work for a company that uses Aerospike quite heavily. In the past couple weeks, we have begun to notice data inconsistencies in our counters. We are seeing fluctuations in the data, despite having no decrement operations.

We have the enterprise edition of Aerospike, allowing us to be in constant contact with their support team and developers. A couple weeks later, and we still have no idea why this is happening. When dealing with monetary values, these fluctuations are very bad for us. Needless to say, we have begun migrating away from Aerospike.

Re: Call me maybe: Aerospike

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post #16

I currently work for a company that uses Aerospike quite heavily. In the past couple weeks, we have begun to notice data inconsistencies in our counters. We are seeing fluctuations in the data, despite having no decrement operations. We have the enterprise edition of Aerospike, allowing us to be in constant contact with their support team and developers. A couple weeks later, and we still have no idea why this is hap…

Yikes. What made you choose Aerospike in the first place?

Re: Call me maybe: Aerospike

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post #16

I currently work for a company that uses Aerospike quite heavily. In the past couple weeks, we have begun to notice data inconsistencies in our counters. We are seeing fluctuations in the data, despite having no decrement operations. We have the enterprise edition of Aerospike, allowing us to be in constant contact with their support team and developers. A couple weeks later, and we still have no idea why this is hap…

Can you add any detail to this anecdote? It's interesting and important, but detail might help steer others appropriately. What kind of inconsistency? What kind of fluctuation?

Re: Call me maybe: Aerospike

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post #19

If you're big enough to require something like Aerospike, you're rich enough to build something like F1.

I dunno, there are ad-tech companies with less than 20 engineers who're processing millions of events per minute on their endpoints, and trying to do various things with that data. This from personal experience.

Of course, I would love if someone gave me the mandate to go out and build something like F1...

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