Evening, Morning, Afternoon to All - For today's Recap: copious meetups, some new code, and more.
Enjoy. Also, if anyone is in Denver and wants to grab a drink and talk Riak, ping me. I'll be here through Thursday. Mark twitter.com/pharkmillups Riak Recap for January 8 - 14 ====================== 1) We started a new series of blog posts comparing Riak to different aspects of relational databases. * High Availability ---> http://basho.com/blog/technical/2013/01/10/Relational-to-Riak-Availability/ * Operational Cost of Scaling ---> http://basho.com/blog/technical/2013/01/14/Relational-to-Riak-Scaling/ * There's a webcast all about this happening on January 24th that you should join ---> http://info.basho.com/RelationalToRiakJan24.html * We also posted details on the enStratus talk from RICON2012 about switching for MySQL to Riak ---> http://basho.com/blog/technical/2013/01/15/Riak-Powers-enStratus/ 2) Riak images are now available on the VM Depot that MSFT Open Tech launched a few days back. * Blog post ---> http://basho.com/blog/technical/2013/01/09/Riak-on-VM-Depot-from-MS-Open-Tech/ * Direct Link ---> http://vmdepot.msopentech.com/List/Index?sort=Date&search=riak 3) We added a new case study to basho.com. This one is about how Synacor uses Riak for their TV Everywhere platform. * Blog post and link here ---> http://basho.com/blog/technical/2013/01/09/Synacor-Riak-Case-Study/ 4) A few Basho hackers have started tinkering with a *very* experimental R Client for Riak. * Check it out here ---> https://github.com/basho/riak-r-client 5) Erlang Factory SF is fast approaching. A few members of the Basho team are lined up for talks. * The Joe Devivo™ will be going deep on our approach to testing distributed systems. ---> https://www.erlang-factory.com/conference/SFBay2013/speakers/JosephDeVivo * The Professor™ Andrew Thompson is talking about Lager ---> https://www.erlang-factory.com/conference/SFBay2013/speakers/AndrewThompson 6) Basho EMEA Hacker Chris Molozian is giving a Riak Training at Erlang Factory Lite in Munich on February 19th. * Details here ---> http://www.erlang-factory.com/conference/Munich2013/university/RiakTraining 7) A lot of meetups to announce: * There's a Riak DC meetup tomorrow night ---> http://www.meetup.com/Riak-DC/events/94513602/ * Riak Manchester is happening January 23rd ---> http://www.meetup.com/riak-manchester/events/99543462/ * Riak Stockholm is happening February 4th ---> http://www.meetup.com/Stockholm-Riak-and-NoSQL-Meetup-Group/events/99691392/ * Riak San Francisco is happening February 13th ---> http://www.meetup.com/San-Francisco-Riak-Meetup/events/99631952/ * The first Silicon Valley Riak Meetup is also February 13th ---> http://www.meetup.com/Silicon-Valley-Riak/events/99739632/ 8) Basho is sponsoring PyCon. Tom Santero ([email protected]) will be in attendance. Ping him if you'll be there and want to chat Riak. * Our logo is somewhere on this page ---> https://us.pycon.org/2013/sponsors/ 9) Basho Hacker James Martin did some work to make Riak easier to use with AWS CloudFormation. * Details here ---> http://basho.com/blog/technical/2013/01/14/riak-and-cloudformation/ 10) Some Q & A * ---> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14282226/riak-nodes-reachable-but-transfer-failed-with-ehost-unreach * ---> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14140363/why-some-people-say-riak-is-eventual-consistent * ---> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14258230/best-software-for-large-databases * ---> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14295818/storing-or-fetching-multiple-values-at-once-from-riak-with-python-and-flask * ---> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14295818/storing-or-fetching-multiple-values-at-once-from-riak-with-python-and-flask _______________________________________________ riak-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com
