Xooglers - Google Discussed by Ex-Googlers

perler writes to tell us that Xooglers, a relatively new website created so that ex-Google employees could reminisce and share, has been gaining a great deal of popularity recently. The website shares what went wrong, what went right, and all of the funny happenings in between. Quite an interesting piece of Google history.

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WTF are you babbling about?

[Some Random Username]

What does memory corruption have to do with anything? Read the mysql posting. Ron ignorantly (and incorrectly) states that mysql's lack of transations didn't matter because they can easily roll their own. This is nonsense, you cannot roll your own because if your app dies, or the db dies in the middle of one of your pseudo-transactions, then your data is left in an inconsistant state. So your pretend transactions aren't actually giving you the basic guarentee that transactions are for.

And mods, how can you possibly mod an AC with a nonsense post about who knows what as informative? Give your head a shake, seriously.