I am a software engineer.
I live in the UK and currently work for DeviantArt.
This blog lets me vent some of the tech junk that is always on my mind. If it does nothing else
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You should note the date on anything you read here. There are things written here in the past that I leave for historical purposes rather than because they remain accurate or even consistent with my current opinions.
In case it's not obvious, this is my personal blog. The views expressed on these pages are mine alone and not those of my employer.
Cassandra is an open source distributed database implementation that started life at Facebook as a solution to their message inbox search and storage. Facebook announced the next generation of messaging this week, and it's powered by HBase.
What I take from this is a firm reminder that different NoSQL solutions have different engineering trade-offs, and that picking the right tool for any one application is more important that brand loyalty.