Yeah thanks for sharing. I really enjoyed the talk and will be passing it around to some friends.
On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 1:19 AM, Jason Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > CouchDB is brilliant. Cloudant is brilliant. > > What a fantastic, level-headed, retrospective about real-world CouchDB. > > Thank you very much for the link, Riyad! > > On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 2:50 AM, Riyad Kalla <[email protected]> wrote: > > This is an aside and also a "you guys rock" to the CouchDB dev team... I > > watched a talk by Benjamin Anderson at Meteor today: > > http://www.dataversity.net/archives/6714?t=1320768580 > > > > where he talked about their experience with running CouchDB (via > Cloudant) > > for 2 years in production, scaling from what I imagine was 2 or 3 nodes > to > > a 14-node cluster. In the last year alone their traffic has grown 5x > while > > their Couch cluster has only grown 20% to cover that. > > > > Benjamin is straight forward with some of the shortcomings they have had, > > but the take-away from this that floored me and is a testament to what > you > > guys do... in all these years after all these 10s of terabytes of data, > > they have never lost data or had downtime. > > > > They just kept growing their cluster, adding nodes as needed and got back > > to work. > > > > No world-ending events, total cluster failures or total rebuilds. Couch > > just happily chugged along, keeping track of data and smiling. (not > > discrediting any world Cloudant put in here to make that happen, I just > > don't know what it was). > > > > He also specifically called out how the backend API to Couch has > > (practically) not changed at all in the last 2 years, allowing them to > > focus their development efforts on customer-facing features and not spend > > time writing and rewriting backend persistence features as Couch grew and > > released new versions. > > > > To all of you committers that spend your nights and weekends on Couch, > this > > is a glowing testament to the hard decisions you have made. > > > > Really great job guys. > > > > -Riyad > > > > > > -- > Iris Couch > -- “The limits of language are the limits of one's world. “ - Ludwig von Wittgenstein "Water is fluid, soft and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a rule, whatever is fluid, soft and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. This is another paradox: what is soft is strong." - Lao-Tzu
