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[Discuss] Big Data obsession

Subject: [Discuss] Big Data obsession
From: richard.pieri at gmail.com (Rich Pieri)
Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2012 12:42:40 -0400
In-reply-to: <501D3E90.8000303@mohawksoft.com>
References: <501D3E90.8000303@mohawksoft.com>

"Big" is relative.  Small companies grow, and when they grow they want
their operations to scale to match.  So yeah, Facebook ignored scaling
at the start but the result is an excessively complex system that's a
costly nightmare to maintain.

-- 
Rich P.

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- [Discuss] Big Data obsession
  - From: markw at mohawksoft.com (Mark Woodward)

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