Re: Somewhat OT - interesting interview of Mike Stonebraker
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2011 13:20:27 -0400
Message-ID: <CAE-dsOJEuaN+U8zCm8oPKfqo0sVV-gYN-ZLc7pTT71uwi0_86w_at_mail.gmail.com>
google "facebook slow". there are significant numbers of people complaining. They probably have servers all over the world. so slowness could be from time to time or localized.
i saw a post somewhere they are having alot of problems with their facebook applications and the integration back to your home page. alot of it is games. since this is where people spend money, this could be a bigger concern. I also read somewhere that facebook is getting ready to roll out alot of new features. they may be concerned about these also. On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 11:38 AM, Niall Litchfield < niall.litchfield_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Ok, so I very rarely do Facebook, but my wife does and so do a very
> considerable number of people. I don't hear any complaints about the usual
> scalability issues (speed and availability) I also don't see any evidence
> of Stonebraker's superior technology powering multi-million concurrent user
> applications. So frankly his claims seem absurd.
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> On 12 Jul 2011 16:23, "Dba DBA" <oracledbaquestions_at_gmail.com> wrote:
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> For the RSS feeds and for adding to your friends list, they may not need
> acid properties. they may be able to live with dirty reads on this to get it
> to scale. if you have not finished with the commit in a de-friends does it
> really matter if someone sees it as done when you have this level of volume?
> I actually agree with the guy that in many cases unstructured data like
> images and videos can often be stored outside of a database and this reduces
> over.
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> that being said. it sure sounds like the facebook guys don't know anything
> about sql or data modelling. its probably just a big data dump. For all
> their mad programming skills, their database design sounds like junk. some
> good data modellers might do wonders for them.
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> On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 12:52 AM, Hemant K Chitale <
> hemantkchitale_at_gmail.com> wrote:
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