In our drawn out discussion about databases, and most discussions about
databases this happens as well, the subject of HUGE scalability was
trotted out. Now I am by no means dismissing "big data" as a real
problem. Seriously, I worked on some pretty large systems -- hundreds of
servers. It is a
On 08/04/2012 11:24 AM, Mark Woodward wrote:
> In our drawn out discussion about databases, and most discussions
> about databases this happens as well, the subject of HUGE scalability
> was trotted out. Now I am by no means dismissing "big data" as a real
> problem. Seriously, I worked on some pre
"Big" is relative. Small companies grow, and when they grow they want
their operations to scale to match. So yeah, Facebook ignored scaling
at the start but the result is an excessively complex system that's a
costly nightmare to maintain.
--
Rich P.
