On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 09:43:48AM -0400, Andrew Otto wrote:That's what I said to you the other day when I looked a bit at Scribe
> Here's his opinion on Scribe:
> > I personally gave up on Scribe, I'd recommend that you consider
> > Flume as a better replacement, that is more supported and developed.
> > Scribe has never been really well written or maintained, it's just
> > one of the many hacks that Facebook released.
>
> In general, it does seem to be pretty given up on. There have been a
> couple of pull requests merged in the last year, but beyond that there
> isn't much activity:
> https://github.com/facebook/scribe/commits/master
and read about how it doesn't work with a newer Thrift and the patches
to make it so haven't been merged.
It seems abandonded, or at least its public releases are. My 2 cents is
that this is quite dangerous for us: if it just works we'll never get
new features; if it fails, we're basically on our own to fix it, same as
udp2log. I thought the whole point was to to move something that has
active developers working on it :-)
Domas works at Facebook and has been on of the first Wikimedia
> It would be really interesting to know how (and if?) Facebook still
> uses Scribe internally. I'm pretty sure they've done a lot more with
> Hadoop since 2008-2010 when Scribe was being more actively promoted.
> Maybe they're using Flume instead now? We need a Facebook insider,
> anyone know one?
(volunteer) techops, being our main DBA among other things for years. He
does less things nowadays but still hangs around on IRC channels,
mailing lists, was at the Berlin Hackathon etc. You should catch-up with
him on IRC; his nickname is "domas" and he doesn't have a predictable
timezone :)
Regards,
Faidon
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