Riak Recap time. It's been a busy one around here! Here are some great conversations from the past two weeks.
## Latest Releases * The Riak TS product release is still in private beta, but we're digging into how it works on next week's webinar. Join us to learn more [0] * The Node.js client released v1.8.0 this week. It includes one community contribution that has been reviewed, tested, merged and now released. Thank you for contributing! [1] ## RICON! * There's still time to join in on RICON - the distributed systems conference. As a community member, you can take the $100 off your ticket with the Basho100 code. This discount code will expire on October 31. Click here to use it: http://bit.ly/ricon15u * Also! If you're in Chicago, we're giving away a RICON ticket at the next Basho Meetup there: http://bit.ly/1KbRxNx ## Recently Answered * Shawn Debnath and others help with a Riak S2 (aka Riak CS) deployment [2] * Jason helps identify a low memory error using Riak KV and Riak Search (aka Yokozuna/Apache Solr) [3] and Luke adds some useful notes [4] * Ruan gives a set of questions to ask as someone thinks about running basho_bench [5] * Zuzana and Russell have an incredibly interesting conversation about Version Vectors that begans here [6] and ends here [7] * Russell has a number of questions for Girish as he explores an Erlang crash dump [8] * Craig points to some Java client examples [9] * Dmitri provides excellent feedback on a concern about deleted keys coming back [10] * Dmitri (again) provides fantastic detail on running Riak KV in production and how to use the Java client [11] (highly recommend reading the whole thread) * Emyr and Jon discuss "Accumulator" convergent data type [12] * Daniel and Dmitri explain how Riak KV is perfect for billions of small files, and recommend some optimizations of leveldb and search - [13] & [14] * MVM helps with a leveldb optimization to limit its memory consumption [15] ## Open Discussions * Matthew would like to get Riak running on a systemd based Ubuntu environment [16] * Ari and Sargun are still discussing recommended health check policies [17] ## Weekend Reads * Mark Allen wrote a phenomenal post about Peter Alvaro's presentation at Strange Loop. Read this for a thought-provoking look at the purpose of programming languages [18] Have a great weekend, Matt Brender Developer Advocate @ Basho @mjbrender [0] http://bit.ly/1Ozj2Z7 [1] https://github.com/basho/riak-nodejs-client/releases/tag/v1.8.0 [2] http://lists.basho.com/pipermail/riak-users_lists.basho.com/2015-October/017717.html [3] http://lists.basho.com/pipermail/riak-users_lists.basho.com/2015-October/017653.html [4] http://lists.basho.com/pipermail/riak-users_lists.basho.com/2015-October/017658.html [5] http://lists.basho.com/pipermail/riak-users_lists.basho.com/2015-September/017634.html [6] http://lists.basho.com/pipermail/riak-users_lists.basho.com/2015-October/017643.html [7] http://lists.basho.com/pipermail/riak-users_lists.basho.com/2015-October/017650.html [8] http://lists.basho.com/pipermail/riak-users_lists.basho.com/2015-October/017667.html [9] http://lists.basho.com/pipermail/riak-users_lists.basho.com/2015-October/017670.html [10] http://lists.basho.com/pipermail/riak-users_lists.basho.com/2015-October/017677.html [11] http://lists.basho.com/pipermail/riak-users_lists.basho.com/2015-October/017693.html [12] http://lists.basho.com/pipermail/riak-users_lists.basho.com/2015-October/017682.html [13] http://lists.basho.com/pipermail/riak-users_lists.basho.com/2015-October/017681.html [14] http://lists.basho.com/pipermail/riak-users_lists.basho.com/2015-October/017683.html [15] http://lists.basho.com/pipermail/riak-users_lists.basho.com/2015-October/017698.html [16] http://lists.basho.com/pipermail/riak-users_lists.basho.com/2015-September/017635.html [17] http://lists.basho.com/pipermail/riak-users_lists.basho.com/2015-October/017714.html [18] http://bit.ly/1RIk83c RICON - http://bit.ly/ricon15u Chicago Riak - http://bit.ly/1KbRxNx _______________________________________________ riak-users mailing list riak-users@lists.basho.com http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com
