> According to Borthwick, it would have cost “hundreds of thousands per month” to keep the site running on its old platform. Even though the site was state-of-the-art just a few years ago, most of the infrastructure would be considered legacy technology by a modern startup.
I recall when Kevin Rose was interviewed prior to v4 launching, they were running the entire thing on Cassandra.
When it launched, they spent the majority of the time attempting to scale it in a quick fashion - a process which probably involved buying lots of resources and attempting to scale as fast as possible. It was badly designed from the start, and was never really fixed.
It's not necessarily that, but when v4 launched, they experienced a giant problem with their infrastructure. Likely the "fix" was to increase performance versus fix the problem programatically.
Hence their previous statements. Kevin's statement was in reference to them switching completely to NoSQL and not knowing how to scale it properly.
I was under the impression Facebook replaced Cassandra in their stack with HBase.
Yes, I forgot about Netflix! Not only do they use it, but they've provided tons of excellent tools for it (Astyanax, Priam) and blog about it very frequently.
why does it even need to keep on running? Geez, just keep open the submission process, crank up the ads, and turn off everything! Digg has no clue what passive income means. They should take a page from spammers.
has anyone some details to expand on it?