Morning, Afternoon, Evening to All OK. A lot to cover today. Grab a glass/mug of your favorite $DRINK and settle in.
Happy Thursday. Mark twitter.com/pharkmillups ----------------------------------- Riak Recap for June 29 - July 11 ======================== 1) Basho Hacker Russell Brown wrote a blog post about the new stats code that will be in Riak 1.2. * Read here ---> http://basho.com/blog/technical/2012/07/02/folsom-backed-stats-riak-1-2/ 2) Basho Hacker Bryce Kerley wrote some CRDT code called Hanover that will eventually target Riak. * Code here ---> https://github.com/bkerley/hanover 3) Data-Riak was bumped to v0.3 * Code here ---> http://search.cpan.org/~anelson/Data-Riak-0.3/ 4) Mathias Meyer wrote a great blog post all about his experiences selling the Riak Handbook. * Read here ---> http://www.paperplanes.de/2012/7/5/six-ish-months-of-ebook-sales-riak-handbook.html 5) Lots of great stuff coming via the team at Boundary: * Ray Jenkins wrote a blog post about how they use Scala with Riak ---> http://blog.boundary.com/2012/07/09/reusable-patterns-for-riak-in-scala/ * He also released their Scala/Riak code (or at least made its existence known) ---> https://github.com/rjenkins/riak-scala-dao * AND they announced a new round of funding. Congrats to the team! ---> http://blog.boundary.com/2012/07/10/big-day-for-boundary-15m-in-new-funding/ 6) GoGrid now has a Riak image built for their platform. They wrote a great blog post about how (and why) to use it. * Read here --> http://blog.gogrid.com/2012/07/09/create-a-basho-riak-cluster-on-gogrid/ 7) OJ Reeves delivered the long-awaited 5th installment of his Riak, Webmachine, and ErlyDTL blog series. This one did not disappoint. * Read here ---> http://buffered.io/posts/webmachine-erlydtl-and-riak-part-5/ 8) Basho Hacker Reid Draper gave a talk at Clojure/West about Knockbox and it's now online for viewing. * Watch here ---> http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Knockbox-an-Eventual-Consistency-Toolkit 9) We added a Riak/Couchbase comparison to the wiki. (h/t to Seth Benton and new-minted Basho Dev Eric Redmond for putting this together. ) * Read here ---> http://wiki.basho.com/Riak-Compared-to-Couchbase.html 10) mbk (from the Engine Yard crew) got started on some Ruby code called riak-shim that generates "sensible bucket names" based on config data. * Code here ---> https://github.com/mkb/riak-shim 11) We released the videos of Voxer's talk from the last Riak Meetup in San Francisco. * Watch here ---> http://basho.com/blog/technical/2012/06/27/Riak-at-Voxer/ 12) Sebastian Röbke shared a pretty amazing photo of what they do at they do at the Xing.com offices. * Check it out here ---> https://twitter.com/boosty/status/220997388754632704 13) We got started on a Riak Charm for Juju. * Details here on Launchpad ---> https://bugs.launchpad.net/charms/+bug/1022591 14) Some Q & A from Stack Overflow * Does Riak have any synchronization features to help sych. mobile and web apps? ---> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11351866/does-riak-have-any-sychronization-features-to-help-sych-mobile-and-web-apps * Riak Failure Scenarios ---> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11272276/riak-failure-scenarios * LinkWalk in RIAK ---> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11384068/linkwalk-in-riak 15) We released the first of two talks from the last BashoChats meetup. This one of from Jeff Hodges and it's all about Go. * Watch here ---> http://basho.com/blog/technical/2012/07/10/escape-hatches-in-go-basho-chats/ # Contributions * Add crash_log to TestServer app_config ---> https://github.com/basho/riak-python-client/pull/137 * Throw an exception if the TestServer fails to start ---> https://github.com/basho/riak-python-client/pull/136 * Test server fixes ---> https://github.com/basho/riak-python-client/pull/132 * Allow commented out "-name" lines. ---> https://github.com/basho/riak/pull/169 * Flatten MaxScore string so that it is consistent in all interfaces. ---> https://github.com/basho/riak_search/issues/118 # Issues * Compression unit test fails with latest eleveldb ---> https://github.com/basho/eleveldb/issues/31 * Support the head parameter if pbc transport is used ---> https://github.com/basho/riak-python-client/issues/134
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