Summer draws to its unofficial close in the northern hemisphere, but that just means tech conferences are spinning back up. We know RICON will be high on the priority list for anyone reading this; check out the speakers list and ask yourself if you really want to miss a chance to bend the ear of speakers from Google, Twitter, Netflix, and many others, as well as the opportunity to find out more about the big changes coming in Riak 2.0. - http://ricon.io/west.html
John twitter.com/macintux ------------------------------------ Riak Recap for August 28 - September 5 ==================== Riak 1.4.2 was released. - http://lists.basho.com/pipermail/riak-users_lists.basho.com/2013-August/013183.html Basho announced a new development process for its repositories on GitHub. - http://lists.basho.com/pipermail/riak-users_lists.basho.com/2013-August/013148.html Dan & Drew Kerrigan of Basho discuss client-side CRDTs and term-based inverted indexes, including a demonstration Zombie Index application. - http://basho.com/index-for-fun-and-for-profit/ - http://basho.com/indexing-the-zombie-apocalypse-with-riak/ - http://zombies.samples.basho.com/ Jonathan Ellis of Datastax wrote a blog post discussing the lack of vector clocks in Cassandra and talked extensively about Riak's default behaviors, resulting in a long and educational discussion on Hacker News. - http://www.datastax.com/dev/blog/why-cassandra-doesnt-need-vector-clocks - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6329619 Customer.io migrated from MongoDB to Riak and discussed the dramatic speed improvements they achieved. - http://basho.com/customer-io-gains-6x-speed-improvement-by-moving-from-mongodb-to-riak/ - http://customer.io/blog/Segment-customer-data-faster.html Flywheel, a mobile taxi hailing platform, selected Riak for its operational simplicity. - http://basho.com/mobile-taxi-platform-flywheel-uses-riak-to-power-their-application/ Joachim Haagen Skeie open sourced a Riak data browser written in Ember.js and Netty. - https://github.com/joachimhs/Embriak John Vincent (Lusis) released an Omnibus project for Riak. - https://github.com/lusis/omnibus-riak Bryce Kerley asked for feedback on link walking via the Ruby library. - http://lists.basho.com/pipermail/riak-users_lists.basho.com/2013-August/013187.html Basho on the road == There are several opportunities to see Basho engineers at various meetups and conferences throughout September. See http://basho.com/events/ for a list. Here are some events over the next couple of weeks: * Surge in National Harbor, Maryland (http://surge.omniti.com/2013) * PyCon APAC in Tokyo, Japan (http://apac-2013.pycon.jp/) * Open Source Conference in Hokkaido, Japan (http://www.ospn.jp/osc2013-do/) * Linux Cloud Open in New Orleans, Louisiana (http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/cloudopen-north-america) * NYC Riak Meetup featuring Gilt Group (http://www.meetup.com/NYC-Riak-Meetup/events/136926552/) * Strange Loop in St. Louis, Missouri (https://thestrangeloop.com/) * NoSQL Roadshow in Zurich, Switzerland (http://nosqlroadshow.com/nosql-zurich-2013/) _______________________________________________ riak-users mailing list riak-users@lists.basho.com http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com
