On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 2:10 PM, Ryan Rawson <[email protected]> wrote: > As for the past RPC, it's all well to complain that we didn't spend > more time making it more compatible, but in a world where evolving > features in an early platform is more important than keeping backwards > compatibility (how many hbase 18 jars want to talk to a modern > cluster? Like none.), I am confident we did the right choice. Moving > forward I think the goal should NOT be to maintain the current system > compatible at all costs, but to look at things like avro and thrift, > make a calculated engineering tradeoff and get ourselves on to a > extendable platform, even if there is a flag day. We aren't out of > the woods yet, but eventually we will be.
Hear hear! +1! -Todd -- Todd Lipcon Software Engineer, Cloudera
