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18th May 2010 - Link Blog

reddit's May 2010 "State of the Servers" report. An interesting Cassandra war story: Cassandra scales up, but it doesn’t scale down very well: running with just three nodes can make recovery from problems a lot more tricky.

Posted 18th May 2010 at 6:37 pm

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