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Digg Says Yes To NoSQL Cassandra DB, Bye To MySQL
donadony writes "After twitter, now it's Digg who's decided to replace MySQL and most of their infrastructure components and move away from LAMP to another architecture called NoSQL that is based in Cassandra, an open source project that develops a highly scalable second-generation distributed database. Cassandra was open sourced by Facebook in 2008 and is licensed under the Apache License. The reason for this move, as explained by Digg, is the increasing difficulty of building a high-performance, write-intensive application on a data set that is growing quickly, with no end in sight. This growth has forced them into horizontal and vertical partitioning strategies that have eliminated most of the value of a relational database, while still incurring all the overhead."
No. To simplify the scenario, let's pretend instead that you receive a lump-sum payment of $2 billion or $1 million two years. What specific actions would take for the former that you would not take for the latter?
As for the "tasks related to founding a company" bit: the intent was to screen out irrelevant answers like "I'd have sex with Newt Gingrich for $2 billion but not for $1 million".
Yes, I omitted the word "in" between "million" and "two". Therefore, I am wrong. The strength of your argument being overwhelming, I am forced to concede.
I might have guessed that, or I might have guessed "for", which would have made only slightly less sense.
If you have a point, why don't you come out and state it instead of asking me to answer an implausible question?