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		kin on Aug 25, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How Discord Stores Billions of Messages (2017) Cassandra has been successfully deployed at many companies. Would you care to provide some insight into your experience and why you consider it one of the worst?

welder on Aug 25, 2021 [–]

Here's a bug I ran into a few years ago:

https://datastax-oss.atlassian.net/browse/PYTHON-891

With all the issues I encountered using in prod, it gave the impression of an overly complicated key/value store.

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