On 9 Jul 2017, at 21:54, Lloyd R. Prentice <ll...@writersglen.com> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> Just finished viewing Mark Allen's excellent 2015 Riak Core presentation and 
> have been reviewing his Udon code on GitHub.
> 
> https://github.com/mrallen1
> 
> Now I have two Micky-the-Dunce questions:
> 
> 1. Assuming a web-based system similar to Udon on a cluster of five physical 
> cores with data distributed across three virtual nodes, can one enter and 
> access the data through any one of the five physical nodes?
> 
> In other words, can one put a load balancer in front of the five physical 
> nodes to enter and access data regardless of where it's ultimately stored in 
> the cluster?

Yes, usually the node that handles the request has access to both the ring (a 
routing table/mapping of partitions to nodes) and the hash function.

> 
> 2. Can KV functionality be relatively easily built on top of Udon--- 
> providing storage of, say, Erlang terms as well as files?

I haven’t looked at Udon, but a KV store on riak core is a very common thing. 
There are quite a few examples out there, the largest (and most complex) being 
Riak itself https://github.com/basho/riak

> 
> Thanks to all,
> 
> LRP
> 
> 
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