It is a fine "war-story" of picking new technology and making it work without losing data.
(It was submitted yesterday by the author here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1196382, but got killed with 5 points, which baffles me. I found it when puzzling out why my submission today was instantly killed, with a different item id ...)
"Why we’re using HBase (at Adobe)": http://hstack.org/why-were-using-hbase-part-1/
It is a fine "war-story" of picking new technology and making it work without losing data.
(It was submitted yesterday by the author here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1196382, but got killed with 5 points, which baffles me. I found it when puzzling out why my submission today was instantly killed, with a different item id ...)
[P.S. minor bug report: my 'dead' item has a working link to the article, which it perhaps shouldn't. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1200833]