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George Takei Helps Facebook Troubleshoot MySQL
miller60 writes "Actor George Takei recently helped the Facebook infrastructure team troubleshoot issues with its MySQL databases. Takei, a veteran of the original Star Trek series, now has more than 1.2 million fans on Facebook. Takei recently noticed that some status updates were missing or appearing inconsistently. That led to a dialogue with the Facebook Engineering team, which gave Takei a shout-out on its latest blog post, which also included some technical discussion of Facebook's challenges in scaling MySQL (a topic of previous discussion here at Slashdot)."
People have been reporting these problems for months, if not years.
He helped troubleshoot? Seems like devs were just following him and reading his posts saying something was wrong.
Not only that, they only took interest because they knew of that issue and were already working on it.
In that case every user on facebook is helping to troubleshoot MySQL.
Mr. Sulu, the database, she canna take no more of this stress!
And Sulu said "The Captain says you fix it or we all die!"
But fortunately, Spock was there, for some reason, to help. Unfortunately, it was also Pom'Far time, and well, Ensign Rand was on her period, so...
But they weren't Sulu.
You can't take the sky from me.
From reading the links, it sounds like Takei had some problems, and reported them to the Facebook team with some helpful to-and-fro exchange of information (i.e. giving them a useful bug report) before they fixed them in the usual manner.
No disrespect to him intended, it just sounds like someone is trying to make this story sound like a bigger deal than it is. The Slashdot headline doesn't help, compounding the misleading impression (probably intentionally) that Takei was sitting alongside the Facebook techies debugging nested right joins.
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Swordsman and technical troubleshooter: a potent combination, particularly when done shirtless.
Too stupid for Postgres and too cheap for Oracle?
I hear Mongo DB is web scale.
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1. Takei posts a picture of him bashing typical left wing boogymen like Jesus, Republicans, and now Rick Santorum
2. 1.2mil people blindly hit share
3. Half of those people click like
4. Facebook is overwhelmed
5. ?????
6. PROFIT (Fix the problem by forcing Takei to pay a monthly fee for 1.2mil of his subscribers- you would pay to host 1.2mil people in a large event right?)
But they weren't Sulu.
George is a little odd (from my point of view; see the Shatner roast), but that's allowed. Besides, he looks great wielding a katana.
"Tongue tied and twisted, just an Earth bound misfit
But they weren't Sulu.
There's something to be said for celebrity - it get's your messages noticed more often than us ordinary slobs.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
They had to resort to Takei because Kim Jong-il is no longer available.
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He wasn't looking through their databases or anything, he was offering them in-depth details of the errors he was getting. Nobody said he knows the slightest thing about SQL.
Troubleshooting MySQL is advanced computer science?
Helmsman Lojur: She'll fly apart!
Captain Hikaru Sulu: *Fly her apart then!*
I'm an engineer, not a navigator!
But he knows who to ask to get the warp-drive to reroute the MySql signals thru the deflector dish using aluminized tribbles disguised as phaser-cannon cleaning brushes while nosy Klingons are onboard. Not your average user.
Table-ized A.I.
Nope. All you have to do is press the "Upgrade to PostGreSql" button ;-)
Table-ized A.I.
Dude, people stop actors who play medical roles on TV and ask them medical questions. They have to explain they're not real doctors.
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No, they noticed Takai's posts, because they liked his page. They apparently either ignore your page, or openly hate it. Either way, they don't read what they don't read.
Well.. maybe. Or Maybe not. But Definitely not sort of.
George Takei has a lot of fans with us and since we've all Liked his Page, a while back some of us saw an update from him about an inconsistency in his Facebook experience. We realized what he was experiencing was an issue we were already trying to fix on the database side, so when we saw him post, it gave us more information that helped us get closer to resolving the issue. This allowed us to improve his experience, and in turn, the experience of everyone else on Facebook.
They were already aware of the problem and working on a solution
Maybe a new DB technology like VoltDB would be better...
I can only imagine the pain and horror their DBA's experience. But what do I know?
Except for ending slavery, the Nazis, communism, & securing American independence, war has never solved anything.
Seriously? Anyone knows 69 isnt ATM... it's P2P... DUH.
Interesting thing going on here. After over an hour, First Post has not been modded at all yet. Your post is modded funny even though FP said same thing. My personal opinion is that this has occurred from the interaction between the First Post Phenomenon and putting the 'being famous sentiment' in his subject.
There's something to be said for celebrity - it get's your messages noticed more often than us ordinary slobs.
failing celebrity status, you can get extra attention to your messages by using apostrophe's.
You also have to have a real page.
What the heck, they might even listen to me, if my page didn't just say "this page intentionally left blank."
Captain Hikaru Sulu: *Fly her apart then!*
I swear there's a gay joke in there somewhere....
He's not "a little odd", he's openly homosexual. Why do you have such a problem with a man inserting his penis into another man's (willing) asshole? Or two men performing an ass-to-mouth 69 on each other?
I have always found him a little bit odd as well, and that was before I even knew he was gay. Odd is not bad, at least I don't take it to be that way. Besides, hes fucking Sulu. He rocks man.
As for your ass-to-mouth 69 comment..... I think somebody would flunk "spatial mechanics" on the Starfleet entrance exam. I suggest you get a couple of dolls and try to work out your "theory" there.
Find me a great actor that is not a little odd anyways....
to any successfull software project. programmers mean nothing without testers and bug reporters. often times the lines between those three blur. its like you need hydrogen and oxygen to make water.
I guess I've been doing it wrong. When I do 69 with another man, I usually have his dick in my mouth, and mine in his.
Maybe if the "S" stood for Sucking.
And the "Q" stood for Queer.
But I'm not sure what the "L" would stand for.
Lads, maybe!?
Sulu would have fixed the bug himself and used his sword to cut the head off the person who created it.
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Lube.
My other account has a 3-digit UID.
Besides, hes fucking Sulu.
No, he is Sulu.
It's the other guy who's fucking Sulu.
Time travel man, Time Travel.
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for being subtle.
Full query ahead Mr. Sulu.
In something totally unrelated why is the only thing I've seen George in been Star Trek and Heroes? I've always thought he was a good actor.
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Tee hee! You're the first person to allude to George Takei being homosexual with a hilariously clever comment.
Oh wait... you're not and it's not.
"The new screens held!"
Indeed, I'm certainly an oddball (if you're reading this you probably are too), but I'm not gay.
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