[chef] Re: Re: Re: Getting off of couchdb?

[Jesse Nelson < >]

At the summit a couple times this discussion came up. One thing that
was offered as a short term solution was looking into big couch. I had
a test environment up on bigcouch, but I never got the chance to
really put it through its paces. Might be useful for you to give it a
shot.


On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 7:12 PM, Bryan Horstmann-Allen
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 wrote:
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> | On 2012-02-11 10:33:21, Noah Kantrowitz wrote:
> |
> | The short version; yes we are moving the backend from Sinatra (Ruby) + 
> CouchDB to WebMachine (Erlang) + SQL (MySQL and Postgres specifically). No, 
> this code isn't public yet because the migration is ongoing and it isn't 
> really the kind of thing that we want to support others running right now. 
> We are switch over API endpoints as they are written and swapping data into 
> SQL usually as the endpoint is rewritten in Erlang, so right now it 
> requires a lot of magic in the load balancers to keep everything flowing 
> smoothly. The general goal is to try and open-source it once it is fully 
> converted and in a situation where other people could run it without going 
> insane, but there aren't specific plans or timelines yet. Wish I could give 
> you something firmer, but hopefully that sheds some light on the situation.
>
> After losing multiple days of my life to CouchDB eating itself in the last 
> few
> weeks, I am avidly waiting for this to drop, whenever it does.
>
> Cheers.
> --
> bdha
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