A footnote to “Distributed Systems: A Compendium of Problems Enumerated by Benjamin Black.”Tumblr (3.0; @b6n)http://b6n.tumblr.com/“[7:39pm] benblack: wish i could be more help, but i’m busy watching youtube videos for bad club music featuring hot girls<br/> [7:43pm] rbranson: i wish real life was like music videos<br/> [7:44pm] benblack: you need to up your game, bro”http://b6n.tumblr.com/post/1573554153http://b6n.tumblr.com/post/1573554153Sun, 14 Nov 2010 07:24:39 -0800“[11:18am] kreynolds: benblack: I had an SSD question the other day for you but I can’t remember it. You can’t by any chance extract it from my brain can you?<br/> [11:18am] benblack: they will in fact add length and girth.<br/> [11:19am] kreynolds: I knew it!<br/> [11:19am] benblack: hth!”http://b6n.tumblr.com/post/1554279542http://b6n.tumblr.com/post/1554279542Fri, 12 Nov 2010 11:43:06 -0800“[10:23am] benblack: i have no idea what you think you are measuring at this point.<br/> [10:23am] benblack: you are running riak in a way that is neither the way it was intended to run nor the way you intend to run it.”http://b6n.tumblr.com/post/1535455722http://b6n.tumblr.com/post/1535455722Wed, 10 Nov 2010 10:35:42 -0800“[5:22pm] benblack: i leave you to your overthinking.”http://b6n.tumblr.com/post/1488811188http://b6n.tumblr.com/post/1488811188Fri, 05 Nov 2010 09:58:41 -0700“[12:21pm] benblack: swap mostly poop”http://b6n.tumblr.com/post/1481251364http://b6n.tumblr.com/post/1481251364Thu, 04 Nov 2010 11:24:55 -0700“[11:00am] rstrickland: anyone available to help? i need some help with outofmemory errors (java heap issues), and the wiki is not giving me enough info to know how to solve the problem<br/> [11:01am] benblack: you’re out of memory.”http://b6n.tumblr.com/post/1480929398http://b6n.tumblr.com/post/1480929398Thu, 04 Nov 2010 09:56:15 -0700“[9:55pm] benblack: reading is fundamental”http://b6n.tumblr.com/post/1374276223http://b6n.tumblr.com/post/1374276223Fri, 22 Oct 2010 04:00:57 -0700“[11:48am] benblack: apparently it’s a bad idea to run a large database on a handful of puny rackspace cloud instances.<br/> [11:48am] benblack: who knew?”http://b6n.tumblr.com/post/1352832318http://b6n.tumblr.com/post/1352832318Tue, 19 Oct 2010 11:53:45 -0700“[6:18pm] benblack: totally resharded”http://b6n.tumblr.com/post/1352079524http://b6n.tumblr.com/post/1352079524Mon, 18 Oct 2010 23:46:44 -0700“[10:59am] benblack: infinite_entropy: that’s not an error, not finding php is an indication things are as they should be.”http://b6n.tumblr.com/post/1300007127http://b6n.tumblr.com/post/1300007127Mon, 11 Oct 2010 15:41:45 -0700“[3:19pm] benblack: yeah, so, if you could never say “shard” again in the context of a dynamo system that’d be awesome”http://b6n.tumblr.com/post/1255905642http://b6n.tumblr.com/post/1255905642Wed, 06 Oct 2010 07:46:57 -0700“[4:35pm] benblack: that’s not scale, that’s a rails app.”http://b6n.tumblr.com/post/1250943336http://b6n.tumblr.com/post/1250943336Tue, 05 Oct 2010 13:55:07 -0700“[1:45pm] benblack: right, i see your problem now. you are doing soemthing terrible.”http://b6n.tumblr.com/post/1245448811http://b6n.tumblr.com/post/1245448811Mon, 04 Oct 2010 16:50:40 -0700“[1:26pm] benblack: the code provided with cassandra works. yours doesn’t. ergo, the problem is in your code.”http://b6n.tumblr.com/post/1223531876http://b6n.tumblr.com/post/1223531876Fri, 01 Oct 2010 13:46:19 -0700QEmotherfuckingD“[4:32pm] M_: I appreciate Ben’s help, and am willing to pay the price of a beating<br/> [4:32pm] benblack: oh man<br/> [4:32pm] benblack: i know where that quote is ending up”http://b6n.tumblr.com/post/1213199248http://b6n.tumblr.com/post/1213199248Wed, 29 Sep 2010 17:20:18 -0700guestpost“[2:03pm] benblack: what i said is either do it properly or not at all.”http://b6n.tumblr.com/post/1161907059http://b6n.tumblr.com/post/1161907059Tue, 21 Sep 2010 09:12:45 -0700“[9:51pm] benblack: you didn’t just believe some bullshit in techcrunch, did you?”http://b6n.tumblr.com/post/1162066210http://b6n.tumblr.com/post/1162066210Tue, 21 Sep 2010 09:12:43 -0700“[1:53pm] benblack: you put an APP written in a REAL LANGUAGE in front of the data store<br/> [1:53pm] benblack: it exposes an interface specific to your FRONT END”http://b6n.tumblr.com/post/1145363701http://b6n.tumblr.com/post/1145363701Sat, 18 Sep 2010 11:00:55 -0700“[1:53pm] benblack: yes, many things can be done with enough of the right code<br/> [1:53pm] benblack: but resources are finite<br/> [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)<br/> [1:53pm] benblack: as needed, swap out backend<br/> [1:53pm] benblack: as needed, scale out that layer”http://b6n.tumblr.com/post/1139098590http://b6n.tumblr.com/post/1139098590Fri, 17 Sep 2010 10:37:41 -0700“[3:45pm] benblack: meanwhile, back in reality: use the right tool for the job.”http://b6n.tumblr.com/post/1133554209http://b6n.tumblr.com/post/1133554209Thu, 16 Sep 2010 10:00:49 -0700