September 29, 2010
Riak hackers will be giving quite a few presentations between now and the end of the week. And they all happen to be in Baltimore! Here is a quick rundown (in no particular order) of where we will be, who will be there, and what we will be talking about:
Rusty Klophaus at CUFP
Rusty Klophaus will be at the Commercial Users of Functional Programming (CUFP) Event taking place this weekend in Baltimore, Maryland. His talk is called “Riak Core: Building Distributed Applications Without Shared State” and it should be downright amazing.
From the talk’s description: Both Riak KV (a key-value datastore and map/reduce platform) and Riak Search (a Solr-compatible full-text search and indexing engine) are built around a library called Riak Core that manages the mechanics of running a distributed application in a cluster without requiring a central coordinator or shared state. Using Riak Core, these applications can scale to hundreds of servers, handle enterprise-sized amounts of data, and remain operational in the face of server failure.
All the details on his talk can be found here.
And, in case you haven’t been following your Riak Core developments, check out Building Distributed Systems with Riak Core.
Dave Smith at the Ninth ACM SIGPLAN Erlang Workshop
Dave Smith (a.k.a “Dizzyd”) will be keynoting the ACM SIGPLAN Erlang Workshop taking place on Friday, Sept 30th, also in Baltimore. Dave’s talk is called “Rebar, Bitcask and how chemotherapy made me a better developer.”
Rebar and Bitcask are both pieces of software that Dizzy had a major hand in creating and they have played a huge role in Riak’s adoption (not to mention that Rebar has quickly become an indispensable tool for Erlang developers everywhere). Dave was also fighting follicular lymphoma while writing a lot of this code. Needless to say, this one is sure to be memorable and of immense value.
More details on his talk can be found here.
It should also be noted that newly-minted Riak Developer Scott Fritchie is the Workshop Chair for this event. He is an accomplished Erlang developer and Riak is not the only distributed key/value store about which Scott is passionate – he will also happily talk your ear off about Hibari.
Justin Sheehy at Surge
Just when you thought they couldn’t fit another conference in Baltimore on the same weekend… And this one is big: it’s the Surge Conference put on by the team at OmniTI. Riak will be there in the form of CTO Justin Sheehy.
Justin will be giving a talk about concurrency at scale, something about which every distributed systems developer should care deeply. Additionally, he will be taking part in a panel discussion – I haven’t seen an official name for it yet but rumor has it that it’s something along the lines of “SQL versus NoSQL.”
Check out the Surge site for more conference details.
As you can see, Baltimore is the place to be this weekend. Get there at all costs. And then go download Riak.
