Introducing Riak Function Contrib
December 02, 2010 A short while ago I made it known on the Riak Mailing list that the Basho Dev team was working on getting "more resources out the door to help the community better use Riak." Today we...
View ArticleA Few Noteworthy Contributions to Riak
December 16, 2010 The community contributions to Riak have been increasing at an exciting rate. The pull requests are starting to roll in, and I wanted to take a moment and recognize several of the...
View ArticleRiak Wiki Now Running On Gollum
December 28, 2010 Those of you who are familiar with the Riak Wiki may have been surprised by what you saw at wiki.basho.com starting yesterday. That's because we just gave it a facelift. More...
View ArticleA Short Survey For Developers
December 29, 2010 The Dev team here at Basho is in the process of prioritizing some code and new feature development. So, we wanted your opinion on it. We threw together a short, simple survey to get...
View ArticleRiak 0.14 Released
January 01, 2011 Happy New Year, Happy Wednesday, and Happy Riak 0.14! It's a new year and it's time for a new version of Riak. We've been putting the final touches on the latest release candidate for...
View ArticleA Deeper Look At Riak's MapReduce Enhancements
January 06, 2010 We officially released Riak 0.14 yesterday. Some of the biggest enhancements were in and around Riak's MapReduce functionality. Here's a more in-depth look at what you can look forward...
View ArticleBaseball Batting Average, Using Riak Map/Reduce
January 20, 2011 A few days ago, I announced a tool that I assembled last weekend, called luwak_mr. That tool extends Riak's map/reduce functionality to “Luwak” files. But what does that mean? What...
View ArticleFixing the Count
January 26, 2011 Many thanks to commenter Mike for taking up the challenge I offered in my last post. The flaw I was referring to was, indeed, the possibility that Luwak would split one of my records...
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Creating a Local Riak Cluster with Vagrant and Chef
February 04, 2011 The Riak Fast Track has been around for at least nine months now, and lots of developers have gotten to know Riak that way, building their own local clusters from the Riak source. But...
View ArticleData Durability Is Not An After-market Add-on; Announcing KillDashNine
February 07, 2011 We started Basho Technologies with an idea as simple and timeless as an honest day’s work: databases shouldn’t lose data. Sounds radical, we know, but some people think losing data is...
View ArticleMapReducing Big Data With Luwak Webinar
February 14, 2011 Basho Senior Engineer Bryan Fink has been doing some exceptional work with MapReduce and Luwak, Riak’s large-object storage interface. Recently, he wrote up two extensive blog posts...
View ArticleFollow Up to MapReducing Big Data With Luwak Webinar
Firstly, a big thanks goes out to everyone who attended yesterday’s MapReducing Big Data With Luwak Webinar. As promised, here is the screencast (below) from the webinar. It should be quite useful for...
View ArticleA Preview Of Cluster Membership In Riak 1.0
September 09, 2011 Being a distributed company, we make a lot of videos at Basho that are intended for internal consumption and used to educate everyone on new features, functionality, etc. Every once...
View ArticleSecondary Indexes in Riak
September 14, 2011 Developers building an application on Riak typically have a love/hate relationship with Riak’s simple key/value-based approach to storing data. It’s great that anyone can grok the...
View ArticleRiak Pipe - the New MapReduce Power
September 19, 2011 A few months ago, I announced the opening of Riak Pipe, as well as two goals for the project. With the upcoming 1.0 release of Riak, we have achieved the first goal: new clusters...
View ArticleRiak 1.0 Is Officially Released!
September 30, 2011 We are absolutely thrilled to report that as of today, Riak 1.0 is officially released and ready for your production applications! Riak 1.0 packages are available. Go download one....
View ArticleRemembering Steve Jobs
October 5, 2011 Our worlds have been forever changed by a man who refused to accept the status quo and believed that he could change the world. Not only did he change the world, he made others believe...
View ArticleBasho and Riak Taking Over QConSF
November 14, 2011 QCon is happening this week in San Francisco, with the tutorials taking place today and tomorrow, and the conference proper running Wednesday through Friday. Basho is huge supporter...
View ArticleRiak 1.0 Release Party Recap
November 17, 2011 The Riak 1.0 Release Party happened just over a week ago in San Francisco. It was an exceptional evening, and we were able to bring together the Basho Team and a huge number of local...
View ArticleRiak and Hadoop (Sitting in a tree)
November 29, 2011 It has been pointed out on occasion that Riak MapReduce isn’t real “MapReduce”, often with reference to Hadoop, which is. There are many times that Riak’s data processing pipeline is...
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