Shit Ben Black says

A footnote to "Distributed Systems: A Compendium of Problems Enumerated by Benjamin Black."

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Oct 6

“[3:19pm] benblack: yeah, so, if you could never say “shard” again in the context of a dynamo system that’d be awesome”

Oct 5

“[4:35pm] benblack: that’s not scale, that’s a rails app.”

Oct 4

“[1:45pm] benblack: right, i see your problem now. you are doing soemthing terrible.”

Oct 1

“[1:26pm] benblack: the code provided with cassandra works. yours doesn’t. ergo, the problem is in your code.”

Sep 29

“[4:32pm] M_: I appreciate Ben’s help, and am willing to pay the price of a beating
[4:32pm] benblack: oh man
[4:32pm] benblack: i know where that quote is ending up”

Sep 21

“[2:03pm] benblack: what i said is either do it properly or not at all.”

“[9:51pm] benblack: you didn’t just believe some bullshit in techcrunch, did you?”

Sep 18

“[1:53pm] benblack: you put an APP written in a REAL LANGUAGE in front of the data store
[1:53pm] benblack: it exposes an interface specific to your FRONT END”

Sep 17

“[1:53pm] benblack: yes, many things can be done with enough of the right code
[1:53pm] benblack: but resources are finite
[1:53pm] benblack: directly accessing a database from the front end app like that is just poor practice. put a service in front of it that exposes an app-appropriate interface (NOT a native db interface)
[1:53pm] benblack: as needed, swap out backend
[1:53pm] benblack: as needed, scale out that layer”

Sep 16

“[3:45pm] benblack: meanwhile, back in reality: use the right tool for the job.”

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