Marty is a smart guy. He was smarter than me when we were in college together, and he's smarter than me now.
But I disagree with him strongly here.
Sometimes hipster tech is just hipster for the sake of hipster, but if I have to choose between a sharded replicated MySQL cluster with some sort of active/passive across the WAN HA or Cassandra, I'm choosing Cassandra every time, and it's not close.
But I disagree with him strongly here.
Sometimes hipster tech is just hipster for the sake of hipster, but if I have to choose between a sharded replicated MySQL cluster with some sort of active/passive across the WAN HA or Cassandra, I'm choosing Cassandra every time, and it's not close.