i cant fathom someone getting upset enough by techcrunch being well.. techcrunch to write a blog post no matter how short about it. techcrunch trades in rumor and gossip. don't want to get sucked in? block the site from your machine ( works for me ).
I saw that report. If it was Cassendra's fault than the database would have been fired, not the VP of engineering. Digg was great, now it's not, AND it's broken all the time.
Not necessarily true. A VP can, and maybe should be, fired for choosing a technology, like Cassandra (or implementation of using Cassandra) which turns out to be very problematic.
There is a lot here this is not known, and maybe there is a valid reason for firing the VP because I chose to "fire" the last database and switch to Cassendra.
Well they do claim "sources" after all. They just don't name their sources or what they said exactly... does that mean that the conclusions aren't true?