June 25, 2012 The riak-admin transfers command contains additional information in the upcoming Riak 1.2 release. It should help users…
Technical Blog
When API Compatible Isn’t
June 18, 2012 There’s no quicker way to learn the unspoken, de facto standard components of an API than to…
Supporting Riak on *BSD
June 11, 2012 Q: What platforms are supported by Riak? This question comes up quite frequently and there has always…
Riak Community Release Notes v0.3
June 4, 2012 I’m thrilled to announce that the v0.3 Riak Community Release Notes are now official. (For some history…
Riak CS for Startups
Introducing the Riak CS for Startups program, which provides early-stage companies with access to Riak’s simple, multi-tenant, distributed cloud storage at a significant discount.
Voxer’s Node.js Client For Riak Now Open Source
I’m excited to announce that Matt Rannay and the team at Voxer just open-sourced their production node.js client for Riak, node_riak.
Riak Community Release Notes
Today we are introducing something called the Riak Community Release Notes. Much like codebases grow and evolve, so does a community and its accomplishments. So why not present and chronicle what the community does in the same way that you would with a piece of code? The Riak Community Release Notes are an attempt to do just that.
Why Your Riak Cluster Should Have At Least Five Nodes
Here at Riak we want to make sure that your Riak implementations are set up from the beginning to succeed. While you can use the Riak Fast Track to quickly set up a 3-node dev/test environment, we recommend that all production deployments use a minimum of 5 nodes, ensuring you benefit from the architectural principles that underpin Riak’s availability, fault-tolerance and scaling properties.
Instant-ish Real Service Architecture
Ted Nyman is the lead engineer at Simple, a startup that is changing the way people bank. Ted was kind enough to come out to RiakChats last week in San Francisco to share his views on building scalable, JVM-based services that just work.
How Eventual is Eventual Consistency?
Peter Bailis is Graduate Student in the much-heralded Berkeley CS department. He and some colleagues have been working on something called Probabilistically Bounded Staleness for Practical Partial Quorums (PBS). In short, PBS aims to define just how eventual “eventual consistency” is, and their research produced some fascinating findings that should affect how people view and deploy distributed databases like Riak, Cassandra and Voldemort.
Riak Control
Riak Control is Riak’s new OSS, REST-driven, user-interface for their NoSQL database ‘Riak’. You can find more information on setting up RIak Control on the Riak Wiki.
QuickChecking Poolboy for Fun and Profit
This week, the Riak engineering team flew out to Denver and spent a week at the Oxford Hotel. Also attending was John Hughes, the CEO of QuviQ, who spent the week teaching a bunch of us how to use his property-based software testing tool, QuickCheck.
RiakChats 001 – Erlang and DTrace; Storm and Distributed RPC
December 21, 2011 The inaugural RiakChats was held just under a week ago at RiakWest in San Francisco. About 30 local…
Riak and Hadoop Word Count Example
An example Riak-Hadoop map/reduce job.
Riak and Hadoop (Sitting in a tree)
A whistle stop tour of a new integration between Riak and Hadoop MapReduce.