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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)."
But they weren't Sulu.
You can't take the sky from me.
Swordsman and technical troubleshooter: a potent combination, particularly when done shirtless.
What they didn't mention, for competitive reasons, are the parts of their datacenter now running MySQL on 23rd century technology, helpfully provided through some sort of plot hopefully less lame than that one with time-travel and whale extinction...
Oooh MyyySQL
FTFY
Mod parent up. Good bug reports are rarer than good sex (for most slashdotters).
And if you think you maybe had a good bug report but aren't sure.. then you haven't had a good bug report before.
"If you are going through hell, keep going." - Winston Churchill
I'm vaguely disturbed by your knowledge of Vulcan sexuality.
I'm even more disturbed by how you got a +4 informative.
The great thing about George is you actually think for a second that maybe he knows MySQL, and are disappointed. If the headline was "Chuck Norris Helps Facebook Troubleshoot MySQL" then you'd know it wasn't with the code.
Remember that: George Takei beats Chuck Norris.
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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.
Seriously? Anyone knows 69 isnt ATM... it's P2P... DUH.
MongoDB may be webscale, but /dev/null is even higher performing. Facebook should just switch to writing to /dev/null for the best possible performance; it's not like their users are going to notice that much.
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.
Oh, come now, Sulu was helmsman, not engineering.
He want fixing the problem, just pointing them on the right direction.
Any insufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology.
I'm vaguely disturbed by your knowledge of Vulcan sexuality.
I'm even more disturbed by how you got a +4 informative.
I find your lack of faith in the +4 th disturbing.
Besides, hes fucking Sulu.
No, he is Sulu.
It's the other guy who's fucking Sulu.
Same as above but add (for about 30 minutes) "I think it might be because I gave my car beefy delight instead of seafood surprise! ...
Car analogy fail!