Today is the last day to complete the latest quarterly Riak community survey and get some swag: http://basho.com/quarterly-riak-community-survey/
More importantly, RICON all the things! It's the end of October, which means it's time to gather around some great speakers (virtually or in person) and talk distributed systems. There are still a handful of tickets available if you can join us next week: http://ricon-west-2013.eventbrite.com Mark Phillips has captured all the Riak (particularly 2.0) goodness that we'll be talking about onstage: http://www.themarkphillips.com/2013/10/14/Riak-2-dot-0-and-riconwest.html John twitter.com/macintux ------------------------------------ Riak Recap for September 26 - October 25 ==================== Basho released Riak CS 1.4.2 - http://lists.basho.com/pipermail/riak-users_lists.basho.com/2013-October/013639.html The UK's National Health Service will be replacing an Oracle solution with Riak - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/10/10/nhs_drops_oracle_for_riak/ - http://basho.com/nhs-implements-riak-to-improve-performance-and-patient-care/ - http://basho.com/nhs-to-deploy-riak-for-new-it-backbone-with-quality-of-care-improvements-in-sight/ Seagate released their Kinetic Open Storage platform with help from Basho and Riak - http://basho.com/basho-releases-ekinetic-driver-and-integrated-riak-backend-with-seagate-partnership/ Kivra talked in Dublin about switching to Riak for scale - http://basho.com/kivra-built-their-secure-mailbox-service-on-riak/ Rovio, Basho, Angry Birds, and Riak caught the attention of Computer Weekly and won the Best Technology Innovation award - http://basho.com/basho-is-the-winner-of-the-computer-weekly-european-user-awards-for-storage/ Basho CTO Justin Sheehy gave an interview to TechWeekEurope - http://www.techweekeurope.co.uk/interview/it-life-basho-riak-130350 Kresten Krab Thorup released a web hook for Riak that POSTs newly written objects to a remote HTTP server - https://github.com/krestenkrab/riak_webhook Ryan Zezeski has announced Yokozuna 0.10.0 - http://lists.basho.com/pipermail/riak-users_lists.basho.com/2013-October/013566.html Hector Castro created a Cloud Foundry service broker for Riak - https://github.com/hectcastro/cf-riak-service-broker Bryce Kerley clarified the future (or lack thereof) for Ripple - http://lists.basho.com/pipermail/riak-users_lists.basho.com/2013-October/013589.html Alexey Kachayev has published a sample project leveraging Riak Pipe - https://github.com/kachayev/riak-pipe-workshop Akash Manohar wrote a post on how to interact with Riak from Elixir - http://akash.im/2013/09/30/using-riak-with-elixir.html Sebastien Goasguen of Citrix created a walkthrough for setting up a Riak CS cluster - http://buildacloud.org/blog/290-a-look-at-riakcs-from-basho.html A few members of the Salt Stack released a video of them spinning up a 100 node Riak cluster with Salt SSH - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWGDC1PdySQ - http://docs.saltstack.com/index.html (for those of you who haven't seen Salt Stack yet) Basho now has a dedicated conference page on Lanyrd, if you're curious where you can find us next - http://lanyrd.com/basho/ While we're talking about 2.0 and CRDTs at RICON West, Joel Jacobson will be talking about them in London - http://jaxlondon.com/sessions/conflict-free-replicated-data-types-eventually-consistent-systems Alex Rice published Azure benchmarks for Riak that started an interesting discussion of benchmarking and points of concern for various cloud hosting solutions - http://lists.basho.com/pipermail/riak-users_lists.basho.com/2013-October/013475.html Drew Searcy posted a blog on troubleshooting Riak daemon startup problems - http://drewsearcy.com/troubleshooting-riak-startup/ John Daily captured some of the differences between Riak and Riak CS - http://basho.com/riak-cs-vs-riak/ _______________________________________________ riak-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com
