On this note, I think a lot of people would appreciate data modeling examples and scenarios. One of the biggest barriers to adoption for many new data storage mechanisms is wrapping your brain around "How would I build XYZ with this?" The idea of "blog/store/forum/whatever with Riak" is a good start. Some problems naturally lend themselves to key/value data storage and some don't. Highlighting these with examples for real world practice would make it a lot easier to build up a body of practical operational knowledge.
--- Jeremiah Peschka - Managing Director, Brent Ozar PLF, LLC Microsoft SQL Server MVP On Apr 19, 2012, at 11:37 AM, Alexander Sicular wrote: > More posts/ talks on actual use cases, agreed. The funny thing is that riak > is actually one of the dead simplest nosql systems out there. There really > isn't much you need to know to use it or set it up. > > Believe it or not that may be a draw back cause there isn't that much to say > about it in practice. Although Mathias did find a way to fill a book and I > have bloviated my way through many a presentation on it. The depth is often > revealed in a more academic setting. > > > @siculars on twitter > http://siculars.posterous.com > > Sent from my iRotaryPhone > > On Apr 19, 2012, at 14:21, Bogunov <bogu...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Some tutorials like "how to write a blog, e-commerce shop, forum, social >> network, etc. using riak". People are actually afraid to use it for >> something they haven't seen it was used for be cause it seems quite compex >> in common. >> >> On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 10:00 PM, Dmitry Demeshchuk <demeshc...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> The problem of any book is Riak rapid evolution. >> >> Sometimes very cool and important features are added within a minor >> release. That's generally okay, but I wouldn't read even a half-year >> old book, it will contain very outdated information. >> >> I'd add some cross-referencing between code (or features in general) >> and the docs related to them (especially wiki pages of course). >> Currently, wiki cannot keep up with the code, and probably releasing >> docs updates along with pull requests could help that. >> >> On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 9:53 PM, Evan Kinney <evan.kin...@sas.com> wrote: >> > Upvote for a book like this. >> > >> > I've spent a good deal of my time when evaluating Riak searching the >> > Googles (and perusing the Basho git repo - thanks for that, by the way) >> > for information like this. This list is a great resource (and so is the >> > wiki, for that matter) but having a set of defined and sanctioned "best >> > practices," as it were, in such an easily-avaialble and accessible form >> > would be killer. I'm sure Packt (or maybe even O'Reilly!) would love to >> > pick up something like this. >> > >> > Heck, I'd even offer to help write it; my love affair for Riak is already >> > at a ridiculous level as it is. >> > >> > A good example of this is the MySQL Cluster project. I'm intimately >> > familiar with its internals, as I've written many patches for the >> > engine... but it's hard to explain to other people (especially >> > management). Alex Davies published a book through Packt that explains >> > everything and even gives advanced performance tips and scenarios. I keep >> > this on my bookshelf in my office and hand it to anyone who comes to me >> > asking about NDB stuff. >> > >> > >> > --- >> > Evan Kinney >> > Systems Architect, Research and Development >> > SAS Institute Inc. >> > >> > P.S.: This is what part of the alphabet would look like >> > if "Q" and "R" were eliminated. >> > >> > >> > On Apr 19, 2012, at 1:37 PM, Zabrane Mickael wrote: >> > >> >> +1 for a solid book on advanced Riak usage. >> >> >> >> Regards, >> >> Zabrane >> >> >> >> >> >> On Apr 19, 2012, at 7:31 PM, Mark Phillips wrote: >> >> >> >>> At this point Riak has been deployed thousands of times. This is >> >>> excellent, but as you can imagine we here at Basho feel this is just the >> >>> tip of the iceberg. We want everyone to be running Riak. The software >> >>> obviously needs to solve enough problems for people to want to deploy >> >>> it. However, we need to get the software into developers' hands before >> >>> this happens. So the question is: >> >>> >> >>> What can we be doing better? >> >>> >> >>> I'm not talking so much about features in Riak itself. I'm more >> >>> interested in the other resources, tools, docs, processes, etc., that >> >>> you think we need to put in place or refine to take the Riak community >> >>> from 1000s of users to 100,000s of users. By virtue of being on this >> >>> list, you've all spent some time using or investigating Riak. As such, >> >>> you're opinions and experiences would be very valuable. >> >>> >> >>> Any comments, ideas, or thoughts you had would be great. On or off-list >> >>> will work. >> >>> >> >>> Thanks for your time. Long live the vnode! >> >>> >> >>> Mark >> >>> twitter.com/pharkmillups >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> _______________________________________________ >> >>> riak-users mailing list >> >>> riak-users@lists.basho.com >> >>> http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> riak-users mailing list >> >> riak-users@lists.basho.com >> >> http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com >> > >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > riak-users mailing list >> > riak-users@lists.basho.com >> > http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com >> >> >> >> -- >> Best regards, >> Dmitry Demeshchuk >> >> _______________________________________________ >> riak-users mailing list >> riak-users@lists.basho.com >> http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com >> >> >> >> -- >> email: bogu...@gmail.com >> skype: i.bogunov >> phone: +7 903 131 8499 >> Regards, Bogunov Ilya >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> riak-users mailing list >> riak-users@lists.basho.com >> http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com > _______________________________________________ > riak-users mailing list > riak-users@lists.basho.com > http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com _______________________________________________ riak-users mailing list riak-users@lists.basho.com http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com
