Comments on: Twitter’s Lead Architect Leaves http://www.lastpodcast.net/2008/04/23/twitters-lead-architect-leaves/ Opinionated Web 2.0 News and Commentary Tue, 16 Mar 2010 15:58:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Alan Wilensky http://www.lastpodcast.net/2008/04/23/twitters-lead-architect-leaves/comment-page-1/#comment-49671 Alan Wilensky Wed, 23 Apr 2008 19:08:49 +0000 http://www.lastpodcast.net/2008/04/23/twitters-lead-architect-leaves/#comment-49671 They are all learning the same lesson over and over again. RDBMS systems that cater to high write rate events with transient small joins are the most brittle critters. I know this first hand. Now, Fitzpatrick solved this years ago at Livejournal and Typepad. He is now a Google man. he get's it. There is such an investment in the off-the shelf mysql databases that has literally created a whole class of scaling problems. As a matter of fact, the clustering options for these write throughput problems are worse that what they are trying to cure! They didn't think this through - it's too easy to set up a few database servers and wait for the madness. "Gee harry, things seem to be fine, for now." Don't get me started on what conventional wisdom regarding wen applications and RDBMS has wrought on my vertical systems and mobile messaging systems work. Thank G-d I found http://www.db4o.com/default.aspx They are all learning the same lesson over and over again. RDBMS systems that cater to high write rate events with transient small joins are the most brittle critters. I know this first hand.

Now, Fitzpatrick solved this years ago at Livejournal and Typepad. He is now a Google man. he get’s it.

There is such an investment in the off-the shelf mysql databases that has literally created a whole class of scaling problems. As a matter of fact, the clustering options for these write throughput problems are worse that what they are trying to cure!

They didn’t think this through – it’s too easy to set up a few database servers and wait for the madness. “Gee harry, things seem to be fine, for now.”

Don’t get me started on what conventional wisdom regarding wen applications and RDBMS has wrought on my vertical systems and mobile messaging systems work. Thank G-d I found http://www.db4o.com/default.aspx

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