So much better than the old API!! Thanks for the hard work on this. On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 10:53 AM, Russell Brown <russell.br...@me.com> wrote: > Hi, > A while back (in March) I asked for help/feedback in defining a new API for > the riak-java-client[1]. Last week I merged a branch to master of the basho > riak-java-client repo[2] with that new API. > Defining an API is hard. I like Joshua Bloch's advice: > "You can't please everyone so aim to displease everyone equally." > Well, I didn't *aim* to displease anyone, but if you don't like fluent APIs > and builders, you're not going to like this ;) > I had two aims with this re-work > 1. A common API for the different transports (HTTP/PB) > 2. A set of strategies for dealing with fault tolerant, eventually > consistent databases at the client layer > The bulk of the inspiration for the latter aim came from this talk[3] by > Coda Hale and Ryan Kennedy of Yammer (and some follow up emails) as well as > from emails and advice on this list (from Kresten Krab and Jon Brisbin > (amongst others.)) The team at Basho have been brilliant and very patient > answering all my questions about the workings of Riak and the best way for > the client to behave in a given situation. And Mathias Meyer is the best > remote/IM rubber duck[4] in the world. > That said, the implementation (and mistakes) are mainly mine. Please have a > look at the new README, pull the code and play with it. There are some rough > edges, and I have a long TODO list of tidying and extra features, so if you > find a bug, need a feature or have any feedback at all please get in touch, > or even fork the project and send a pull request ;) > Cheers > Russell > [1] > - http://lists.basho.com/pipermail/riak-users_lists.basho.com/2011-March/003599.html > [2] - https://github.com/basho/riak-java-client > [3] - http://blog.basho.com/2011/03/28/Riak-and-Scala-at-Yammer/ (if you > haven't watched this yet, please do.) > [4] - http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?RubberDucking > > _______________________________________________ > riak-users mailing list > riak-users@lists.basho.com > http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com > >
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