The Recap took an (unplanned) August vacation, rather like the rest of the civilized world, but we're back.
The most important news: RICON West tickets are still available, but early bird ticket sales end Thursday morning (US). If you've been to a RICON, you know why you shouldn't miss this; if you haven't, don't miss this chance. - http://basho.com/ricon-early-bird-sale-ends-this-week/ John twitter.com/macintux ------------------------------------ Riak Recap for August 1-27 ==================== Riak CS 1.4.0 was released, with OpenStack integration. - http://lists.basho.com/pipermail/riak-users_lists.basho.com/2013-August/012997.html - https://github.com/basho/riak_cs/blob/1.4.0/RELEASE-NOTES.org Riak 1.4.1 was released. - http://lists.basho.com/pipermail/riak-users_lists.basho.com/2013-August/012891.html The Basho-supported Riak Ruby client 1.4.0 was released. - http://lists.basho.com/pipermail/riak-users_lists.basho.com/2013-August/013066.html Dave Martorana wrote a great post on why Flyclops is going with Riak for persistence to back their games, which was followed by an overview of building Riak for OmniOS. - http://tech.flyclops.com/taking-the-riak-plunge-356 - http://tech.flyclops.com/building-riak-on-omnios-360 Riak is being used by the UK's National Health Service as part of their Spine re-architecture. Forrester mentioned this in a piece recently. - http://blogs.forrester.com/james_staten/13-07-30-to_get_national_healthcare_right_requires_adaptive_intelligence Basho engineer Takahiko Sato posted a Riak concepts slide deck on slideshare (Japanese). - http://www.slideshare.net/takahikosato/riak-24796781 Ryan Zezeski announced Yokozuna 0.8.0, the next generation search tool for Riak that leverages Solr. - http://lists.basho.com/pipermail/riak-users_lists.basho.com/2013-August/012887.html - https://github.com/basho/yokozuna/blob/master/docs/RELEASE_NOTES.md#080 mrb and the small team working on the Riak Go Client are looking for feedback before they officially make it 1.0. - https://twitter.com/mrb_bk/status/364878043719802880 In what is becoming a common deployment pattern, Customer.io moved into production with Riak and Go. - http://customer.io/blog/Segment-customer-data-faster.html - https://twitter.com/jrallison/status/365560974251540481 The team at Janrain wrote a blog post about why they are using Riak in production and their move to take over development of the Riak Haskell client. - http://janrain.com/blog/janrain-is-now-leading-development-of-the-haskell-riak-client/ CorrugatedIron co-author Jeremiah Peschka wrote a post called "Querying a Key/Value Database – Learning with Riak" for the Brent Ozar blog. - http://www.brentozar.com/archive/2013/08/querying-a-keyvalue-database-learning-with-riak Jeremiah presented at Seattle Riak on "Riak in a .NET World", video online. - http://compositecode.com/2013/08/20/riak-in-a-net-world/ Jeremiah also announced the release of CorrugatedIron 1.4.1. - http://lists.basho.com/pipermail/riak-users_lists.basho.com/2013-August/013074.html Adron Hall started an open source project to build a Windows 8 Riak Interface and blogged about it. - http://compositecode.com/2013/08/20/riak-in-a-net-world/ Adron posted a piece on the Client Round Robin Anti-Pattern. - http://compositecode.com/2013/08/21/riak-development-guidance-the-client-round-robin-anti-pattern/ Nathan LaFreniere's riakproto library just hit 1.4.1. - https://npmjs.org/package/riakproto Gavin M. Roy wrote a Riak plugin for New Relic in Python. - https://github.com/MeetMe/newrelic-plugin-agent/blob/master/newrelic_plugin_agent/plugins/riak.py _______________________________________________ riak-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com
