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Thomas Santero – Technical Evangelist
Thomas Santero is joining Riak as Technical Evangelist. He’s based in Staten Island and will be focusing his time on bringing Riak to developers everywhere along the Eastern seaboard.
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 is a Proud Sponsor of Travis CI
The crowd funding site for the Travis CI Project went live this morning. For those of you who haven’t had the pleasure of working with it, Travis is a “distributed build system for the open source community” with support for Ruby, PHP, Clojure, Erlang, and JavaScript (with more on the way).
2011 Was A Huge Year. Onto 2012
A Whirlwind tour of what we did in 2011 and where we are going in 2012 …
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 at Formspring
Several weeks back at the San Francisco Riak Meetup, Tim Bart of Formspring delivered a great talk to a packed house all about how he and his team are using Riak for two new features they were rolling out to their more than 24 million users …
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.
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.
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.
Riak and Scala at Yammer
Coda Hale and Ryan Kennedy came out to the Riak Meetup in San Francisco to share their experiences and knowledge gained when putting a Riak-backed application into production at Yammer.
Ryan Zezeski Added As Community Wiki Committer
There is a group of community members who are given commit access the Riak Wiki repository on GitHub, and I’m pleased to announce that Ryan Zezeski is now part of this group.
Announcing KevBurnsJr as a PHP Client Committer
We just added Kevin Burns as a committer to the Riak-supported Riak PHP Client. Kevin has been hard at work over the past few weeks adding some great functionality to the PHP client…
A Few Noteworthy Contributions to Riak
The community contributions to Riak have been increasing at an exciting rate. The pull requests are starting to roll in, and I wanted to take a moment and recognize several of the many contributions we’ve received over the past months and weeks (and days).