kerneis
Joined 14 years ago
Joined 14 years ago
You can read the paper they published: "events can make sense" https://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/usenix07/tech/krohn.htm...
I met some ex-OkCupid engineers at a later company who said the framework was smart but a pain to maintain in then long run.
Trivia time: Laeticia (née Laetitia) was married to Johnny, the famous French rock singer; Estelle was married to David, son of Johnny. Note that Johnny is dead now, Laeticia has been remaried twice but kept Johnny's last name, Estelle is divorced, and David is not the son of Laeticia as Johnny got married several times (David's mother is the French actress Sylvie Vartan).
> But as joatmon-snoo correctly said, the more important point is demonstrating how bad backend churn is with this algorithm.
Yes, again the overall point came across clearly, but faced with specific examples I like to dive into the details to check my understanding of how things work. Otherwise, it's easy to overlook key but subtle details.