Comments on: Digg Not Likely to Give Up on Cassandra

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Coté's People Over Process » Links for September 8th — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 04:36:45 +0000

[...] Digg Not Likely to Give Up on CassandraOne of those "does it scale" stories from The New Middleware. [...]

By: geewhiz

geewhiz — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 02:35:38 +0000

This is NOT about technology PEOPLE, this is about business model. DIGG is slowly dying. This is a smokescreen.

By: Lisa

Lisa — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 00:19:26 +0000

I am having trouble reconciling this:

He said Riptano has been involved with Digg since around April, which was soon after Digg announced its plans to use Cassandra.

with this:

“We know Cassandra can scale to levels that are equal to or greater than a Digg is putting on it and I have full faith in Cassandra, but there are these little knobs that need to be tuned and you have to know where they are.”

was Riptano helping Digg or not? Why weren’t the “knobs tuned” properly, given the implication that Riptano knows how to tune them?

By: Tyron

Tyron — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 22:09:17 +0000

The way Digg is undergoing controversy, they are losing their loyal subscriber.. Specially movement in their upper management is not a very good sign for Digg. As it is, reddit traffic is growing with a great speed, so I’m kind of doubtful now for Digg future.

By: Jason Smith

Jason Smith — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 19:50:22 +0000

If you don’t like the new dig v4 register at http://www.linkcamp.com The old digg is not coming back.

By: Conquistador

Conquistador — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 18:11:55 +0000

@Mike Because nothing adds to the discussion of an esoteric tech topic on a tech blog like a review of 8th grade grammar rules. No one who is not a secondary school English teacher cares.