I think you misunderstand Riak Pipe; it's a distributed processing framework, not a security layer.
Sean Cribbs <s...@basho.com> Developer Advocate Basho Technologies, Inc. http://basho.com/ On Jun 13, 2011, at 9:09 PM, Eric Fong wrote: > Hi > > Can we use the Riak Pipe to handle all HTTP requests so that we can use that > as security/application layer and remove the need to put something in front > of Riak. > > Eric > > On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 12:20 AM, Bryan Fink <br...@basho.com> wrote: > Hello again, Community. > > I'm excited to announce the opening of a new beta-status Basho project > today: Riak Pipe. > > http://github.com/basho/riak_pipe > > Riak Pipe is a new way to distribute work around a Riak cluster. > > The README explains much more than I can here, but essentially Riak > Pipe allows you to specify work in the form of a chain of function > pairs. One function of that pair describes how to produce output from > input, and the other describes where in the cluster an input should be > processed. Riak Pipe handles the details of ferrying data between > workers by building atop Riak Core's distribution power. > > At this point in time Riak Pipe is BETA-status software. We'd like > anyone who is interested in it to take a look and send us feedback. > Please do not put it into production. We will be continuing to > improve Riak Pipe toward a future release date. > > We have two plans for Riak Pipe. The first is to power Riak's > MapReduce system with it. We think Riak Pipe provides a cleaner, more > manageable subsystem that will provide much easier monitoring, > debugging, and general use of MapReduce in Riak. You can see our work > toward that goal in the "pipe" branch of Riak KV (start at > src/riak_kv_mrc_pipe.erl): > > https://github.com/basho/riak_kv/tree/pipe > > Our second plan for Riak Pipe is to expand Riak's MapReduce system > with more abilities (imagine a keyed-reduce phase, or additional > processing languages), possibly to the extent of providing an entirely > separate interface (new query syntax? offline/asynchronous > processing?). But for this part, we need your help. > > We have some ideas about what external client interfaces might look > like. We also have some ideas about what an external processing > interface might look like. We're still in the early phases of > creating these, though, so if exploring the riak_pipe repository gives > you ideas, please don't hesitate to get in touch. > > And, again, Riak Pipe is BETA software. Basho does not support > running it in production at this time. > > Cheers, > > Bryan Fink > Senior Software Engineer > Basho Technologies > > _______________________________________________ > riak-users mailing list > riak-users@lists.basho.com > http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com > > > > -- > Best Regards, > Eric Fong > _______________________________________________ > riak-users mailing list > riak-users@lists.basho.com > http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com
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