(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
