Morning, Afternoon, Evening to all, For today's Recap: Upcoming presentations and meetups, new repos, some great Q and A, and some excellent Gists from #riak.
Enjoy! Mark, Community Manager Basho Technologies wiki.basho.com twitter.com/pharkmillups ---- Riak Recap for 9/20 - 9/21 1) Basho Hacker Rusty Klophaus (@rklophaus) will be talking at the upcoming CUFP conference taking place in Baltimore, MD on October 2nd. More details here ---> http://cufp.org/conference/sessions/2010/riak-core-building-distributed-applications-withou 2) More Klophaus news: Rusty was already slated to give a talk entitled "Riak: From Small to Large" --- http://strangeloop2010.com/talks/14453 --- StrangeLoop in October. He's just informed me that he'll also be part of a "Non-Relational Data Stores" Panel happening on the 15th. Details here (heckling is encouraged) ---> http://strangeloop2010.com/talks/15702 2) Chuck Ha posted the very beginnings of something called "Riak-blog" on GitHub. The description is pretty great: "A blog engine in node.js with Riak as the database. Can you say overkill?" Check it out and contribute here ---> http://github.com/ggnextmap/riak-blog 3) The Downloads page on basho.com got a facelift thanks to Sean Cribbs and a few great suggestions from Benjamin Black (@b6n). All the Riak that is fit to download ---> downloads.basho.com 4) hiredman, seancribbs and moonpolysoft had a super brief conversation about how to robustify against net splits between nodes and how to detect such splits. Gist here ---> http://gist.github.com/591763 5) Q --- How does Riak generate a key? Is it predictable if you can guess the contents, or is it random? And is that method likely to change? (from misaka via #riak) A --- It's a hash of a random number with the current time. This is not likely to change anytime soon. The code responsible for the key generation is here, starting with "unique_id_62" on line 127 ---> http://github.com/basho/riak_core/blob/master/src/riak_core_util.erl 6) seancribbs, timmorgan, technoweenie and amerine had a great conversation about bulk insertion into riak, the protocol buffer interface, and node.js+riak. Gist here ---> http://gist.github.com/591780 7) ericflo mentioned in #riak that he is looking forward to technoweenie's upcoming talk. Which reminded me to reming you: if you're in or around San Francisco and haven't cleared your schedule in order to attend the Riak Meetup tomorrow night, do so immediately. Details here ---> http://www.meetup.com/San-Francisco-Riak-Meetup/calendar/14704439/ 8) troubled, seancribbs, and benblack had a brief conversation that started with trouble shooting Riak-related firewall issues and then drifted into some things to consider when porting a MySQL app and the related queries to Riak. Gist here ---> http://gist.github.com/591804 9) Q --- I heard that the Masterless multi-site replication is a paid feature. Is that the feature for auto-scaling? (from jpartogi_ via #riak) A --- Masterless multi-site replication is a paid feature, but this is not the same as "auto-scaling." With the OSS version of Riak you can have one cluster with as many nodes as you like/need and replication is automatic and fully functional. If you wish to have more than one cluster with replication between them, this is paid feature. The breakdown is here ---> http://www.basho.com/enterpriseds.html . You can also email [email protected] with any specific questions re: pricing and features. 10 ) ericflo, jpartogi_, technoweenie and joseph_sh had a worthwhile exchange about using Riak in production and some of the use cases they are working on. Gist here ---> http://gist.github.com/591899 _______________________________________________ riak-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com
