In this talk I’ll go into detail about Tumblr’s experience developing Motherboy, an eventually consistent inbox style storage system built around HBase. The SLA, write concurrency, data volume, and failure modes for this application created a number of challenges in developing a solution. The user homing scheme introduced additional complexity that made capacity planning tricky as we tried to trad
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