A few months ago, I announced the opening of Riak Pipe, as well as two goals for the project. With the upcoming 1.0 release of Riak, we have achieved the first goal – new clusters will use Riak Pipe to power their MapReduce processing. Existing clusters will also be able to migrate to using Riak Pipe, with no changes needed from the client perspective …
Technical Blog
Secondary Indexes in Riak
Rusty Klophaus introduces Riak 1.0’s new Secondary Indexes feature.
A Preview Of Cluster Membership In Riak 1.0
This screencast is a bit on the long side, but it’s entirely worth it. Riak Software Engineer Joe Blomstedt put it together to educate all of Riak on the new cluster membership code, features, and functionality coming in the Riak 1.0. We aim to make Riak as operationally-simple as possible to operate at scale, and the choices we make and code we write around cluster membership form the crux of this simplicity …
What’s New In Riak’s Python Client?
A summary of new and noteworthy features in the 1.3.0 release of the Riak client for Python.
Introducing Lager – A New Logging Framework for Erlang/OTP
My name is Andrew Thompson and I’ve been working on Riak at Riak since March. I’ve been focused primary on various technical debt issues within Riak since starting. The largest project I’ve undertaken is Lager, a new logging framework for Erlang/OTP …
Boosting Riak Search Query Performance With Inline Fields
In this post I want to give a quick overview of Inline Fields, a recent addition to Riak Search that allows you to trade-off disk space for a considerable performance bump in query execution and throughput …
An Overview Of The All New Riak Java Client
Hi. My name is Russell Brown and since March, I’ve been working on the Riak Java Client. This past week I merged a large, backwards-compatible branch with some enhancements and long-awaited fixes and refinements …
Leveling the Field
LevelDB as an alternative to Innostore.
Building and Maintaining Community and Culture at a Distributed Company
Hiring where the talent is means we don’t sacrifice great hires for location, but it also presents various hurdles when attempting to build culture and community. Anyone who works at a startup or as part of a small team can speak to the importance of culture.
statebox, an eventually consistent data model for Erlang (and Riak)
When you choose an eventually consistent data store you’re prioritizing availability and partition tolerance over consistency, but this doesn’t mean your application has to be inconsistent. What it does mean is that you have to move your conflict resolution from writes to reads …
Riak Search Explained
At last month’s San Francisco Riak Meetup , Riak Developer Advocate Dan Reverri gave an extensive and action-packed presentation on Riak Search. This talk goes from a basic overview of what Riak Search is and does, up through running a Riak Search Sample application.
Why MapReduce Is Hard
As soon as you throw it at a distributed system, MapReduce suddenly becomes hard. Let’s find out why.
Riak Core – The Coordinator
Logically speaking, a coordinator is just what it sounds like. It’s job is to coordinate incoming requests. It enforces the consistency semantics of N, R and W and performs anti-entropy services like read repair …
Where To Start With Riak Core
There has been a lot of buzz as of late around “riak_core” in various venues, so much so that we are having trouble producing enough resources and content to keep the community at bay. While we hustle to catch up, here is the rundown on what is currently available for those looking to learn, look at, and play with riak_core.
Why MapReduce is Easy
MapReduce has this incredible Big Data aura around it, but it’s actually not that hard, when used in the small.