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Month: May 2015

Cassandra, lists, and tombstones

We’re using Cassandra for some fallback behaviour in my current project. Whenever a downstream system is successfully hit, we store a copy of the data locally that we can fall back to in case of downsystem failure.

During load tests of the fallback behaviour, we starting getting really long, crazy timeouts on reads.

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jsravn Engineering Leave a comment May 13, 2015November 23, 2017 3 Minutes

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