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2010/11/21 David Boxenhorn <da...@lookin2.com> > Eventual consistency is not good enough for instant messaging. > > On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 6:32 PM, Simon Reavely <simon.reav...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> (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 >> > >
