Re: Riak Adoption - What can we do better?

2012-04-19 Thread Jeremy Raymond
+1 for better online docs (wiki). I also don't read them anymore and also go to the source to figure out what to do or ask on the list. Also using the Erlang client. -- Jeremy On Apr 19, 2012, at 11:31 PM, Daniil Churikov wrote: > I wonder why you all ask a book, when there is no any docs on mo

Re: Riak Adoption - What can we do better?

2012-04-19 Thread Daniil Churikov
I wonder why you all ask a book, when there is no any docs on most wanted features at all, or they are outdated. E.g. to find how to use 2i queries in erlang i dive into sources, not docs. I really like riak, but look for example on mongodb docs, it is solid and useful, you could easily find any to

Re: Riak Adoption - What can we do better?

2012-04-19 Thread Christiano Anderson
A book about Riak (both paid and freely distributed as PDF are good idea), more snippets, articles, hands on tutorial, screencast and more documentation. If you want to spread out Riak to other countries, documentation in other languages is a good idea (Portuguese, spanish, french, japanese, chine

Re: Riak Adoption - What can we do better?

2012-04-19 Thread Mark Phillips
Awesome feedback. Much appreciated. For those of you just joining us, here's the list of suggestions I've received so far (off and on-list responses). If there's a number next to the item, it means it was suggested more than once. Keep it coming. (I'm going to hold off on addressing each of these

debugging riak behavior by looking at the network

2012-04-19 Thread Dietrich Featherston
Hey guys, I just wrote a new blog post debugging some issues I'm seeing with riak by looking at the network. Lots of words and pretty pictures here: http://blog.boundary.com/2012/04/19/hungry-kobayashi-pt1/ What seems to be happening is that cleanup tasks in our app eventually become the primary

Riak Core EDocs

2012-04-19 Thread Jordan West
We are beginning to use Riak Core and I noticed there are no edocs for the project (or perhaps I just couldn't find them?). While its only one or two engineers working on the project this is not a big issue but as we get more eyes on it having more documentation would be a big win. Edocs would prob

Re: Riak Adoption - What can we do better?

2012-04-19 Thread Brian Knox
An officially supported first class C and C++ api! I know I've harped on that one on the mailing list and twitter before - and releasing the alpha code that was available was a start.. so please know it was appreciated. However, if C / C++ were, today, a fully supported reliable client library I'd

Re: Riak Adoption - What can we do better?

2012-04-19 Thread Göran Krampe
On 04/19/2012 07:31 PM, Mark Phillips wrote: 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 I may have missed it, but my customer is using CouchDB (guilty for introducing it) an

Re: Riak Adoption - What can we do better?

2012-04-19 Thread Tilman Holschuh
+1 for data modelling examples and scenarios - Tilman On 12-04-19 11:40 AM, Jeremiah Peschka wrote: 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 a

Re: Riak Adoption - What can we do better?

2012-04-19 Thread Jeremiah Peschka
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 s

Re: Riak Adoption - What can we do better?

2012-04-19 Thread Alexander Sicular
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 pr

Re: Riak Adoption - What can we do better?

2012-04-19 Thread Alexander Sicular
Re. code cross reference two bite sized functions I would specifically highlight would be: chash function. an in depth dissection of it, how you could change it, and/or abuse it and what ramifications would that have for key distribution around the cluster. IMHO this is like one of the key fun

Re: Riak Adoption - What can we do better?

2012-04-19 Thread Bogunov
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 wrote: > The probl

Re: Riak Adoption - What can we do better?

2012-04-19 Thread Dmitry Demeshchuk
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 i

Re: Riak Adoption - What can we do better?

2012-04-19 Thread Mathias Meyer
Thanks for the praise of my book. I'm curious though, what does "advanced" entail for you guys? I'm continuously working on updates for the book, and I'm happy to look at things that you think are missing, but it'd be great to have some more concrete examples of what you think a book on advanced

Re: Riak Adoption - What can we do better?

2012-04-19 Thread Vladislav Gorodetskiy
A bunch of screencasts is available on Vimeo channel of Basho at http://vimeo.com/bashotech/videos/page:3/sort:newest by the way. On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 8:53 PM, Alexander Sicular wrote: > In a word: screencasts. > > Short, easy to digest, 2-5min screencasts on: > > -Installation > > -Usage via

Re: Riak Adoption - What can we do better?

2012-04-19 Thread Alexander Sicular
+1 for Mathias' book. It rocks. But I still think that an even more advanced book will only get so much of an audience. The masses like to be shown. They don't like to read. Frankly, that means screencasts. @siculars on twitter http://siculars.posterous.com Sent from my iRotaryPhone On Apr

Re: Riak Adoption - What can we do better?

2012-04-19 Thread Alexander Sicular
In a word: screencasts. Short, easy to digest, 2-5min screencasts on: -Installation -Usage via curl -Step by step walk through of all params in app.conf -Search. setting up index, querying index via command line. Explanation of various analyzers. -Secondary Index usage. Curl examples. T

Re: Riak Adoption - What can we do better?

2012-04-19 Thread Jason J. W. Williams
On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 11:37 AM, Zabrane Mickael wrote: > +1 for a solid book on advanced Riak usage. Better marketing of Mathias' excellent Riak Handbook would definitely help...would be great if it showed up on Amazon at least if not bn.com. Someday replication making it into the community ve

Re: Riak Adoption - What can we do better?

2012-04-19 Thread Evan Kinney
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 a

Re: Riak Adoption - What can we do better?

2012-04-19 Thread Swinney, Austin
Hi Mark, The developers I work with would really like to see protocol buffers worked into the PHP client library. The release of the PB enabled C client made them happy as they could use that to upgrade the PHP client. Who knows how long before they can get to that. Until then, it is difficu

Re: Riak Adoption - What can we do better?

2012-04-19 Thread Vladislav Gorodetskiy
I'd buy the book on advanced usage of Riak. Also, I'd attend Basho Chats in the EU. Vlad On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 8:31 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

Re: Riak Adoption - What can we do better?

2012-04-19 Thread Zabrane Mickael
+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 t

Riak Adoption - What can we do better?

2012-04-19 Thread Mark Phillips
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

Re: Constant vnode crashes after disk corruption

2012-04-19 Thread Nico Meyer
Hi Bogunov! Simple truncation of the bitcask files won't trigger this error, since bitcask will notice that the last written entry is truncated and ignore it. In this case a 'not found' is returned to the layer above bitcask. If on the other hand, an entry (not necessarily the last one written