Afternoon, Evening, Morning to All, Another massive Recap for today: Blog posts, new production users, meetups, webinars, jobs, and all around general awesomeness happening in the community.
Enjoy, and thanks for being a part of Riak. Mark Community Manager Basho Technologies wiki.basho.com twitter.com/pharkmillups ---- Riak Recap for March 7 - 8 1) Franck Cuny and the team at Linkfluence published an extensive (and downright fantastic) blog post about moving from CouchDB to Riak that appeared early Monday. *Read here ---> http://labs.linkfluence.net/nosql/2011/03/07/moving_from_couchdb_to_riak.html Thanks, Franck! 1.1.) Linkfluence is also hiring. Jobs page here ---> http://labs.linkfluence.net/jobs.html 1.2) ReadWriteWeb picked up the Linkfluence blog post and published their thoughts on it. * Read here ---> http://rww.to/gy9WU4 2) Sean Cribbs wrote a blog post about Ripple and its use of Fibers. * Blog here ---> http://seancribbs.com/tech/2011/03/08/how-ripple-uses-fibers/ 3) There's a Riak Search package in the Arch User Repository courtesy of bougyman. * Details here ---> http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=47217 4) We announced a Riak and Node.js webinar. This will be happening on March 15th. * Details and registration here ---> http://blog.basho.com/2011/03/08/free-webinar-riak-with-node/ 5) The Python Client was bumped to version 1.2.1 and was pushed to PyPI. * Package here ---> http://pypi.python.org/pypi/riak/1.2.1 6) Jason J. Williams wrote a great post on his blog comparing Riak and CouchDB for storing and querying coupon data based on their needs over at DigiTar. * Post here ---> http://blogs.digitar.com/jjww/2011/03/riak-vs-couchdb-for-storing-100000-coupons/ 7) We announced the date and lineup for the next San Francisco Riak Meetup. It's happening on 3/22, and Coda Hale and Ryan Kennedy will be talking about their experiences with Riak and Scala at Yammer. * All the details and registration info here ---> http://www.meetup.com/San-Francisco-Riak-Meetup/events/16833202/ 8) Daniel Einspanjer recorded a screenscast to share some of the updates that he as made to the MapReduce front end that he uses with the Mozilla Test Pilot project. This is a great tool for getting a more visual handle on your MapReduce jobs and, as he notes in the video, he'll happily accept a pull request from anyone who is interested in contributing. * Watch here ---> http://screencast.com/t/KIzP2n7gx88 * Source code here ---> http://hg.mozilla.org/users/ibicking_mozilla.com/test-pilot-riak-frontend 9) We added PikkoTekk to the "Who is Using Riak" page on the wiki (h/t to David Almroth for putting together the write up). * Details here ---> http://wiki.basho.com/Who-is-Using-Riak.html#pikkotekk Thanks for sharing, David! _______________________________________________ riak-users mailing list riak-users@lists.basho.com http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com
