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The fact that these bugs were so trivially reproduced and made it into an initial release at all should be cause for concern.

Conflict of interest disclosure -- I work for FoundationDB, where we put a shockingly high level of effort into testing our software in simulation and the real world. [1][2]

[1] https://foundationdb.com/white-papers/testing

[2] https://foundationdb.com/blog/quicksand-continuous-real-worl...

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> The fact that these bugs were so trivially reproduced and made it into an initial release at all should be cause for concern.

Umm... no. The .0 releases of the project are actually where you'd expect the most bugs. That's where you have the first commit with an implementation of a new design.

You'll note that DataStax's commercial version of DSE is still based on 1.2.x...

If foundation db released and is it open sourced?

I remember others (employees of company) hailing its wonderful qualities for quite a while now (years), then I go to the website and all I could find was a bunch of white papers and a registration form. And here it seems a bit of a "my vaporware's features are better than your shipped product's features".

Now matter how many white papers there are I would still put my data in Cassandra rather than this new thing (last I checked I couldn't even download it, I had to fill out a form of some sort).

FoundationDB isn't open source software, but it is a 1.0 product that's freely available to download right now[1]. (You are right in recalling that during our alpha and beta programs there was a simple registration form, and there's still an account signup for our community site and of course for Enterprise licensing and support).

[1] https://foundationdb.com/get

advice from someone who's been at this nosql thing for about 6 years now. schadenfreude will always come back to bite you. tread lightly.

Sorry for the offtopic post: just noticed now that three months ago, you mentioned I misrepresented your words. I deeply apologize; that's not at all what I meant. I had found your Ricon talk refreshingly honest and quoted it admiringly to people I know. (I had zero issue with anything you said; but rather with certain institutions.)

I'm sorry for any errors/misrepresentations I made about your words, and will be more careful in the future. (Unfortunately, I can no longer edit, delete nor respond to that post.)

haha no worries my friend :) glad you enjoyed the talk!

Please. I have yet to work in any environment that hasn't had a brown bag release or two, regardless of how well tested it is.

Nice marketing attempt though.

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