One might say "sorry to see you go" but I think we all know you'll never really leave. And that's the only way I'll have it. Thanks for making this a great community. Mazal Tov!
-Alexander @siculars http://siculars.posthaven.com Sent from my iRotaryPhone > On Jan 24, 2014, at 13:46, Mark S Phillips <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 _______________________________________________ riak-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com
