Eventual consistency is not good enough for instant messaging. On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 6:32 PM, Simon Reavely <simon.reav...@gmail.com>wrote:
> (Posting this to both user + dev lists) > > I was reviewing the blog post on the facebook engineering blog from nov > 15th > http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=454991608919# > <http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=454991608919#> > The Underlying Technology of Messages > by Kannan Muthukkaruppan <http://www.facebook.com/Kannan> > > > > As a cassandra user I think the key sentence for this community is: > "We found Cassandra's eventual consistency model to be a difficult pattern > to reconcile for our new Messages infrastructure." > > I think it would be useful to find out more about this statement from > Kannan > and the facebook team. Does anyone have any contacts in the Facebook team? > > My goal here is to understand usage patterns and whether or not the > Cassandra community can learn from this decision; maybe even understand > whether the Cassandra roadmap should be influenced by this decision to > address a target user base. Of course we might also conclude that its just > "not a Cassandra use-case"! > > Cheers, > Simon > -- > Simon Reavely > simon.reav...@gmail.com >
