When I don't need much horsepower, I use 3 local VMs. When I need horsepower, I fire up a few EC2 instances. Either way, once the instances are online, I put the cluster into a variety of states, run some tests, and then shut down my cluster.
Admittedly, a lot of my time working with Riak is spent writing CorrugatedIron, so I don't spend as much time dealing with the inconsistencies, node gossip, etc. I just try to figure out how developers using .NET are going to want to interact with Riak and then figure out how to turn that into a PBI call. Well, that and make sure that CorrugatedIron is throwing errors to the .NET APIs that don't hide the real problem that Riak is seeing. --- Jeremiah Peschka - Founder, Brent Ozar PLF, LLC Microsoft SQL Server MVP On Aug 30, 2011, at 12:50 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 2:33 PM, Jeremiah Peschka > <[email protected]> wrote: >> That's the advice I usually give and the exact same reasons I give it. >> >> In an off-list email (as Jonathan knows), I equated it to saying "You should >> never do RDBMS development without a big enterprise grade server with $500k >> of SAN behind it." I typically say to build a dev environment that is as >> close to production as will give you production-like performance. Putting 3 >> nodes on my crappy stock laptop HDD isn't going to give me anything remotely >> like a production environment (well… there is always EC2 performance). >> >> We see these questions a lot on the list and I don't feel that telling >> clients "Well, it's gonna suck until you get it into production" isn't the >> best possible answer. A lot of people seem to be developing on 3-node >> clusters made out of Mac Minis, HP micro servers, and EC2; but even more >> people seem to be developing on laptops and wondering why they're seeing >> horrible performance. > > How do you test the inconsistent states you will see in production > when you develop with a one-node cluster? Or, for that matter on a > 3-node cluster on the same box where partitioning isn't going to > happen without some unusual intervention to emulate it? > > -- > Les Mikesell > [email protected] _______________________________________________ riak-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com
