March 18, 2011
Thanks to all who attended Wednesday’s webinar on Riak (Search) and Node.js. If you couldn’t make it you can find a screencast of the webinar below. You can also check out the slides directly.
We hope we could give you a good idea what you can use the winning combination of Riak and Node.js for, by showing you our little syslog-emulating sample application, Riaktant. We made the source code available, so if you feel like running your own syslog replacement, go right ahead and let us know how things go. Of course you can just dig into the code and see how nicely Node.js and Riak play together too.
If you want to get some practical ideas how we utilized Riak’s MapReduce to analyze the log data, have a look at the functions used by the web interface. You can throw these right into the Node.js console and try them out yourself, since riak-js, the Node.js client for Riak, accepts JavaScript functions, so you don’t have to serialize them into a string yourself.
Thanks to Joyent for providing us with SmartMachines running Riak, and for offering No.de, their great hosting service for Node.js applications, where we deployed our little app with great ease.
