George Takei Helps Facebook Troubleshoot MySQL 86
miller60 writes "Actor George Takei recently helped the Facebook infrastructure team troubleshoot issues with its MySQL databases. Takei, a veteran of the original Star Trek series, now has more than 1.2 million fans on Facebook. Takei recently noticed that some status updates were missing or appearing inconsistently. That led to a dialogue with the Facebook Engineering team, which gave Takei a shout-out on its latest blog post, which also included some technical discussion of Facebook's challenges in scaling MySQL (a topic of previous discussion here at Slashdot)."
Re:Facebook only listens if you're famous, apparen (Score:5, Funny)
But they weren't Sulu.
Talented (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Worst association ever... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:As Takei might say.. (Score:5, Funny)
Oooh MyyySQL
FTFY
Re:Not so much (Score:5, Funny)
And if you think you maybe had a good bug report but aren't sure.. then you haven't had a good bug report before.
Re:Actually Takei just called Scotty, who said.. (Score:5, Funny)
I'm vaguely disturbed by your knowledge of Vulcan sexuality.
I'm even more disturbed by how you got a +4 informative.
Re:Worst association ever... (Score:4, Funny)
The great thing about George is you actually think for a second that maybe he knows MySQL, and are disappointed. If the headline was "Chuck Norris Helps Facebook Troubleshoot MySQL" then you'd know it wasn't with the code.
Remember that: George Takei beats Chuck Norris.
Ahh, I see how this works... (Score:5, Funny)
This just in--Slashdot helps load test web servers.
Re:Facebook only listens if you're famous, apparen (Score:4, Funny)
No, they noticed Takai's posts, because they liked his page. They apparently either ignore your page, or openly hate it. Either way, they don't read what they don't read.
Re:Facebook only listens if you're famous, apparen (Score:4, Funny)
Seriously? Anyone knows 69 isnt ATM... it's P2P... DUH.
Re:Should have simply used a better DB (Score:5, Funny)
MongoDB may be webscale, but /dev/null is even higher performing. Facebook should just switch to writing to /dev/null for the best possible performance; it's not like their users are going to notice that much.
Re:Facebook only listens if you're famous, apparen (Score:2, Funny)
There's something to be said for celebrity - it get's your messages noticed more often than us ordinary slobs.
failing celebrity status, you can get extra attention to your messages by using apostrophe's.
Re:Worst association ever... (Score:5, Funny)
Oh, come now, Sulu was helmsman, not engineering.
He want fixing the problem, just pointing them on the right direction.
Re:Actually Takei just called Scotty, who said.. (Score:4, Funny)
I'm vaguely disturbed by your knowledge of Vulcan sexuality.
I'm even more disturbed by how you got a +4 informative.
I find your lack of faith in the +4 th disturbing.
Re:Facebook only listens if you're famous, apparen (Score:5, Funny)
Besides, hes fucking Sulu.
No, he is Sulu.
It's the other guy who's fucking Sulu.
Re:Worst association ever... (Score:3, Funny)
Same as above but add (for about 30 minutes) "I think it might be because I gave my car beefy delight instead of seafood surprise! ...
Car analogy fail!