Evening, Morning, Afternoon to All -

All the RICON West Videos are now live. You can find them in this playlist:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKqgGpAOv1w&list=PL9Jh2HsAWHxKAIZ5n-PkPW3CHg2wI-MWb

We've got full-length talks covering most of the new features in Riak
2.0, use cases from The Weather Channel, State Farm, StackMob, and others,
and much more.

Also, if anyone is in/around Raleigh/Durham and is interested in meeting
up, ping me. I'll be out there in a few weeks.

Enjoy,

Mark
twitter.com/pharkmillups
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Riak Recap for November 18 - December 3
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We announced version 1.4.3 of Riak CS.
-
http://lists.basho.com/pipermail/riak-users_lists.basho.com/2013-November/014099.html

The team at Element84 wrote a blog post about spinning up a Riak cluster
with Vagrant.
- http://www.element84.com/dry-up-your-vagrant-files.html

Hashnuke published a blog about using Riak Search 2.0. He also tweeted a
script for running Riak Search on Digital Ocean VMs.
- http://akash.im/2013/11/28/riak20-yokozuna-preview-elixir-erlang.html
- https://twitter.com/HashNuke/status/407445595234631680

There's some Riak (and Webmachine) hacking happening this Saturday at
ErlangDC.
- http://www.eventbrite.com/e/erlang-dc-r13b-tickets-7565878747?ref=estw

Wampum released a new node.js client for Riak called "Riakor."
- https://github.com/wampum/riaktor

More from the Node.js community: David Keijser released "riak-genesis", a
tool to seed a riak database with data defined in a javascript DSL.
- https://npmjs.org/package/riak-genesis

MvM wrote up some details on a new branch of LevelDB (now in master) that
addresses some delete/compaction issues.
- https://github.com/basho/leveldb/wiki/Mv-aggressive-delete

Neil Soman put together a blog post that discusses the “Scalable Walrus”
component of Eucalyptus (backed by Riak CS).
-
http://neilsoman.blogspot.com/2013/11/introducing-scalable-walrus-tech-preview.html

Tom posted a slide deck from a recent talk he and Cmeik gave at Erlang
Factory Lite in Toronto.
- https://speakerdeck.com/tsantero/choose-your-own-consistency

Information Week ran a piece on The Weather Channel's usage of Riak.
-
http://www.informationweek.com/big-data/software-platforms/big-data-reshapes-weather-channel-predictions/

Basho CTO Justin Sheehy did an interview with Cloudpro about Basho, Riak,
and Riak CS.
- http://www.cloudpro.co.uk/paas/3579/qa-justin-sheehy-cto-basho/

Hector and John wrote a blog post about the current state of Riak and Cloud
Foundry.
- http://basho.com/leveraging-riak-with-cloud-foundry/

Basho Hacker Kota Uenishi posted a slide deck from a recent talk he gave
about the new consistency work coming in 2.0. (This one is in Japanese.)
-
https://speakerdeck.com/kuenishi/a-new-concept-of-consistency-in-distributed-database-and-implementation-in-riak

There are a few upcoming meetups/conferences you should all be attending.
- Drinkup at Riak Atlanta on December 5th:
http://www.meetup.com/Atlanta-Riak-Meetup/events/152385222/
- Riak Chicago on December 11th:
http://www.meetup.com/Chicago-Riak-Meetup/events/151516252/
- Basho will be at Open Source 2013 happening in Tokyo on December 13th:
http://www.ospn.jp/osc2013.enterprise/

Q & A

- http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20139793/riak-limitations
-
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20162166/riak-using-n-val-3-and-only-3-nodes
-
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20172878/riak-is-throwing-failed-to-compact-like-crazy
  + See also the list thread:
http://lists.basho.com/pipermail/riak-users_lists.basho.com/2013-November/014086.html
- http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20327265/riak-cs-stanchion-failover
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