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Road to Failure

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Road to Failure is a personal blog at roadtofailure.com about systems and startups. Since 2009, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times, most often “HBase vs. Cassandra: Distributed Database Battle”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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16mentions?
7HN people?
2009–2011first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 11 in 2009

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link this blog for a 2009 post responding to Cassandra FUD about HBase vs Cassandra. The blog covers distributed systems, startups and writing.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Distributed Systems, Startups, Words

Most-linked posts?

  1. HBase vs. Cassandra: Distributed Database Battle
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2009-10-29
  2. How To Make Life Suck Less (While Making Scalable Systems)
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2009-09-09
  3. Social Media Kills the Database
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2009-06-24

What Hacker News says?

  1. gsteph22 · 2009-07-03
    I wrote a fairly detailed post about the Death of the Swiss-Army RDBMS on my blog, http://www.roadtofailure.com :) The RDBMS has been used for way too long as a generic "bucket" for any sort of data storage and analytics. As a result, speed and scalability have suffered. With Social Media and the advent of "web-scale" data, engineers need to realize that the storage and analysis solutions they use must be driven by…

    Comment linking /

    on “No to SQL? Anti-database movement gains steam ”
  2. gsteph22 · 2010-04-08

    Submitted NoSQL: Why it's So Damn Sticky as a story · 50 points

    HN discussion
  3. drewr · 2009-10-29
    This is the post he's responding to: http://www.roadtofailure.com/2009/10/29/hbase-vs-cassandra-n... .

    Comment linking /2009/10/29/hbase-vs-cassandra-nosql-battle/

    on “Jbellis responds to Cassandra FUD”
  4. gsteph22 · 2010-01-25

    Submitted Logging: Unsexy, Important, and now Usable. as a story · 24 points

    HN discussion
  5. gsteph22 · 2009-08-07

    Submitted A New DB for 80% of Facebook, YouTube-scale Sites as a story · 16 points

    HN discussion
  6. gsteph22 · 2009-10-29

    Submitted HBase vs. Cassandra: Distributed Database Battle as a story · 9 points

    HN discussion
  7. gsteph22 · 2009-07-10

    Submitted Decline of the Enterprise Data Warehouse - When Large Data is Cheap as a story · 8 points

    HN discussion
  8. gsteph22 · 2010-02-15

    Submitted Burn your Database? Announcing the Drawn-to-Scale Platform. as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  9. gsteph22 · 2011-01-11

    Submitted Adventures in Startup Networking: 5 Tips as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  10. jhammerb · 2009-07-10

    Submitted Decline of the Enterprise Data Warehouse as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  11. xefyr · 2009-12-16

    Submitted Making Life Suck Less (While Building Scalable Systems) as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  12. gsteph22 · 2009-09-09

    Submitted How To Make Life Suck Less (While Making Scalable Systems) as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  13. jacquesm · 2009-10-20

    Submitted How To Make Life Suck Less (While Making Scalable Systems) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  14. xefyr · 2009-06-24

    Submitted Social Media Kills the Database as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  15. nowopen · 2011-09-02

    Submitted HBase vs. Cassandra: NoSQL Battle as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  16. ironkeith · 2009-07-06

    Submitted Social Media Kills the Database as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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