Only a week since our last Recap. We might be on to something here. Another week closer to RICON in New York City in May. Even distributed systems need to leverage a little locality now and again, so come join us for some concentrated awesomeness.
Early bird pricing ends March 15, so be sure to register before then! * ---> https://ricon-east-2013.eventbrite.com/ John twitter.com/macintux P.S. You may have noticed that recap.basho.com hasn't been updated lately; we're working on some tweaks behind the scenes to make that easier to keep updated. The Recap shall not be denied! Riak Recap for February 26 - March 5 ============================== ## News from RICON EAST * Thanks to our early adopter sponsors ---> http://ricon.io/east.html#sponsors * Engine Yard is sponsoring the lightning talks ---> http://ricon.io/blog/2013-02-28-engine-yard.html * Ed Laczynski from Datapipe will be talking ---> http://ricon.io/blog/2013-02-28-ed-laczynski.html * State Farm will talk about their use of Riak ---> http://ricon.io/blog/2013-03-05-statefarm.html ## Other Community News 1) The Twelfth ACM SIGPLAN Erlang Workshop, chaired by Basho engineer Steve Vinoski with contributions from Basho engineers Kenji Rikitake (Program Committee) and Scott Fritchie (Steering Committee), has issued a call for papers. * ---> http://www.erlang.org/workshop/2013/ 2) The crew at Nopo Labs assembled a short blog post on getting Riak 1.3 up and running on Ubuntu 12.x * ---> http://nopolabs.com/2013/03/riak-1-3-0-dev-cluster-on-ubuntu-12-x/ 3) The video of Rob Zuber from Copious talking about Riak in production is now live on the Basho blog * ---> http://basho.com/ron-zuber-on-copious-and-riak/ 4) RiakUp is offering a managed Riak solution. * ---> http://riakup.com/ 5) Gideon de Kok pushed a major update to Raiku, his Riak Scala Client * Details here ---> https://twitter.com/gideondk/status/306490438595002369 * Also worth noting ---> https://twitter.com/gideondk/status/306476092015919105 * Github ---> https://github.com/gideondk/Raiku 6) Brian Akins released a Lua protocol buffer client driver for nxg_lua * Project ---> https://github.com/bakins/lua-resty-riak 7) Nodiak just hit version 0.2.1 * ---> https://npmjs.org/package/nodiak 8) Chad Depue talks frankly about how he and his team at Inaka approach NoSQL DBs * Blog post ---> http://inaka.net/blog/2013/02/26/dont-under-think-it-part-ii-sql-vs-nosql/ 9) We wrote a few words on the Basho Blog about Multi-Datacenter Replication for both backups and data locality. * MDC blog post ---> http://basho.com/multi-datacenter-replication-backups-and-data-locality/ 10) Will Lawrence started work on a Riak CLI called Fuji * Code here ---> https://github.com/wlaurance/fuji 11) Basho Director of Training Casey Rosenthal is speaking at Railsconf Portand this May * Talk details ---> http://www.railsconf.com/2013/talks#talk-17 12) Ricardo Gonçalves and Paulo Almeida have an improved version of their Dotted Version Vectors code, a sophisticated consistency tool with similarities to vector clocks, with a proof of concept that integrates with Riak * Github ---> https://github.com/ricardobcl/Dotted-Version-Vectors * Academic paper ---> http://gsd.di.uminho.pt/members/vff/dotted-version-vectors-2012.pdf 13) Dave Smith (dizzyd) pointed out on Twitter that there is riak-admin command that blocks until Riak is ready to service requests * ---> https://twitter.com/dizzyd/status/308710172136710144 14) The Oracle Alchemist writes about Riak and talking to it via PL/SQL * ---> http://www.oraclealchemist.com/news/getting-busy-with-riak/ 15) Various Q and A * ---> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15093160/error-building-eleveldb-on-windows-using-cygwin * ---> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15125442/how-to-convert-a-stored-erlang-term-to-a-string-outside-of-erlang * ---> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15162104/how-to-secure-a-riak-bucket * ---> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15166756/error-while-installing-riak-from-source _______________________________________________ riak-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com
