December 10, 2013
RICON is Riak’s conference series that’s focused on distributed systems. However, just because it is hosted by Riak does not mean it’s all about Riak. While the conference does feature some sessions about what’s new with Riak and Riak in production, we also try and bring speakers that are using other distributed systems to solve industry problems.
This year at RICON West, Jeff Hodges (Distributed Systems Engineer at Twitter) and Jason Brown (Senior Software Engineer at Netflix) both spoke about their experiences with distributed systems, including non-Riak systems.
Jeff Hodges’ talk, “Practicalities of Productionizing Distributed Systems,” discusses some of his tactics and strategies for getting a distributed system into production. He draws upon his experiences at Twitter and shares what he has learned from launching distributed systems at one of the largest social media companies. You can watch the full talk below.
Jason Brown’s talk, “Dynamic Dynamos: Comparing Riak and Cassandra,” provides a comparison of two popular distributed systems, Riak Riak and Apache Cassandra. Jason is a committer on the Apache Cassandra project and, due to working at Netflix, has a lot of experience using Cassandra in his day-to-day. This talk compares and contrasts these two Dynamo implementations and looks at how Riak could be used at Netflix from both a data modeling standpoint, as well as operating in a cloud-based environment. His full talk is below.
You can watch all of the talks from RICON West 2013 on Riak’s Youtube Channel.
