December 21, 2011
The inaugural RiakChats was held just under a week ago at RiakWest in San Francisco. About 30 local developers came out to have a few beers on Riak’s tab and discuss distributed systems and databases. If you’re local to the Bay Area and/or want to keep an eye on what we have planned, join the group. There are some great talks in the pipeline…
Most importantly I’m happy to report that both talks from the evening are now online for your viewing pleasure.
Enjoy. Hope to see you next month.
DTrace and the Erlang VM
Andy Gross opened up the evening with just under 30 minutes on the current work happening at Riak and a few other companies to bring DTrace to Erlang VM. He starts off with some general information on both components and then goes in-depth on how they can be used to profile a running Riak installation.
Repo here on GitHub with the code he used for the examples in his presentation.
Computing Reach Using Storm Distributed RPC
After Andy concluded, Nathan Marz gave an overview of Storm, a framework he and his team at BackType built for distributed and fault tolerant realtime computation. He takes us through some Storm basics and then demonstrates how it is used to compute reach using distributed RPC.
