On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 2:43 PM, Daevid Vincent <dae...@daevid.com> wrote: > http://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/07/09/1256241/Facebook-Trapped-In-My > SQL-a-Fate-Worse-Than-Death > > "According to database pioneer Michael Stonebraker, Facebook is operating a > huge, complex MySQL implementation equivalent to 'a fate worse than death,' > and the only way out is 'bite the bullet and rewrite everything > <http://gigaom.com/cloud/facebook-trapped-in-mysql-fate-worse-than-death/> > .' Not that it's necessarily Facebook's fault, though. Stonebraker says the > social network's predicament is all too common among web startups that start > small and grow to epic proportions." >
Preface: I in no way speak for my employer. I suggest reading http://dom.as/2011/07/08/stonebraker-trapped/ -- Rob Wultsch wult...@gmail.com -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql?unsub=arch...@jab.org
