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George Takei Helps Facebook Troubleshoot MySQL

Posted by samzenpus on from the good-work-sulu dept.

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)."

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  1. Facebook only listens if you're famous, apparently by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    People have been reporting these problems for months, if not years.

  2. Worst association ever... by arse+maker · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

  3. Re:Not so much by jd · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Do you know how rare *good* bug reports are?

    --
    It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
  4. Re:As Takei might say.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Oooh MyyySQL

    FTFY

  5. Re:Actually Takei just called Scotty, who said.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm vaguely disturbed by your knowledge of Vulcan sexuality.

    I'm even more disturbed by how you got a +4 informative.

  6. Ahh, I see how this works... by tool462 · · Score: 5, Funny

    This just in--Slashdot helps load test web servers.

  7. Re:Facebook only listens if you're famous, apparen by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Besides, hes fucking Sulu.

    No, he is Sulu.
    It's the other guy who's fucking Sulu.