Hi All, For anyone keeping score at home, "[email protected]" has managed to spam this list with exactly 710 messages [1] since March 31, 2010 [2]. This, the 711th, is coming from my personal address ([email protected]) as today is my last day at Basho. This message is to say thank you.
I've been at Basho for the better part of six years, with the last four being dedicated to the creation and proliferation of the Riak community. This roughly lines up with when Riak was open-sourced (which, for any historians out there, was 1,631 days ago [3] as of this writing). I officially started in February of 2010 as Community Manager. About two years after that, thanks in large part to our community and customers validating the power of Riak through production usage, I was given the opportunity to build a team. That team now stands at six, with Tom, Hector, Seth, Michelle, John, and Joel all being far more capable than yours truly. The Community Team, alongside all of Basho, have big plans for 2014. Better docs, better meetups, better blog posts, better swag, better RICONs, better code, and better products. The future for Riak is brighter than ever. 2.0 is on the cusp of being official (patience, patience), and the features and fixes in that release will put Riak into another category of database all together. With Yokozuna, CRDTs, Strong Consistency, Security, and Cuttlefish, (each of which could be their own major-release leading feature), I truly believe there's no better database out there for companies building scalable, real-time systems that can't go down. If you have one use case for Riak 1.4.x, you'll have another three or four thanks to the additions in 2.0. (And if you throw CS into the mix, almost all your problems are solved...) The Riak Community was largely my introduction to open source software. It was a never-ending adventure, and I was thankful and honored every day to be a part of it. And even though I'm moving on from Basho to try something new, I'll still be yelling about Riak and Riak CS every chance I get. You won't be getting rid of me that easily. :) (Also, for anyone interested, today's Riak Community Hangout will feature John Daily, Hector Castro, Andy Gross, and myself taking a look at the last six years of Riak and Basho. We'll be live at around 11 AM Pacific - about 14 minutes from now - on Basho's YouTube page [4].) Thanks for everything. See you all soon. Mark twitter.com/pharkmillups 413.335.2332 [1] http://riak.markmail.org/search/?q= [2] http://riak.markmail.org/search/?q=#query:from%3A%22Mark%20Phillips%22%20date%3A201003%20+page:1+mid:2au3o6gk7qodaurz+state:results [3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=748079 [4] http://www.youtube.com/bashotechnologies _______________________________________________ riak-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com
