Riak and Hadoop Word Count Example
December 1, 2011 My last post was a brief description of the integration between Riak and Hadoop MapReduce. This, the follow up post, will be a bit more hands on and walk you through an example...
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Announcing Riaknostic, your Riak Doctor
December 15, 2011 As much as we love Riak and talk about how easy it is to put into production, the activity on the #riak IRC room, mailing list and customer support issues has a way of telling us...
View ArticleBashoChats 001 - Erlang and DTrace; Storm and Distributed RPC
December 21, 2011 The inaugural BashoChats was held just under a week ago at BashoWest in San Francisco. About 30 local developers came out to have a few beers on Basho’s tab and discuss distributed...
View Article2011 Was A Huge Year. Onto 2012
December 28, 2011 Distilling a year’s worth of work, innovation, and growth into one blog post is a fool’s errand. But we wanted to give it a shot regardless. This post is long, but it’s well worth the...
View ArticleQuickChecking Poolboy for Fun and Profit
This post appeared originally on Andrew Thompson's Blog. January 27, 2012 TL;DRUnit tests are great, but they can't test everythingCode always has bugsQuickCheck helps you generate testcases at a...
View ArticleCongratulations, Amazon!
January 18, 2012 Amazon’s unveiling earlier today of DynamoDB, Amazon’s new datastore, is good for the NoSQL movement and great for customer choice. We were early believers in the set of principles...
View ArticleRiak In Production At Posterous
January 31, 2012 The videos from last month’s San Francisco Riak Meetup are online and ready for consumption. The first features Julio Capote giving a short overview of the work he and Posterous are...
View ArticleBasho is a Proud Sponsor of Travis CI
February 07, 2012 The crowd-funding site for the Travis CI Project went live this morning. For those of you who haven’t had the pleasure of working with it, Travis is a “distributed build system for...
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Riak Control
February 22, 2012 Riak Control is Basho’s new OSS, REST-driven, user-interface for Riak. The code has been available for a few months now, but it’s officially supported in Riak 1.1, so we wanted share...
View ArticleHow Eventual is Eventual Consistency?
March 02, 2012 The second BashoChats Meetup was held last week at BashoWest. The office was packed with area developers and our two speakers, Ted Nyman and Peter Bailis, each delivered exceptional...
View ArticleInstant-ish Real Service Architecture
March 05, 2012 Happy Monday. What better way to start the week than with a smart, insightful tech talk from a thoughtful, talented engineer? Ted Nyman is the lead engineer at Simple, a startup that is...
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Thomas Santero - Technical Evangelist
March 15, 2012 I’m happy to announce the addition of Thomas Santero to the Basho family. Thomas (who also goes by “Tom”) is joining as Technical Evangelist and will be part of the Community Team. He’s...
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Drinkup with Etsy on March 20
March 16, 2012 A lot of the Basho crew will be in New York City next week for Structure Data (and if you make it to the cocktail reception on Wednesday night, you’ll be taking home some limited-edition...
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Riak Talk and Drinkup Tonight in Vancouver
March 14, 2012 Andy Gross is giving a Riak talk tonight at the Vancouver Erlang Meetup taking place at the iQmetrix offices. If you’re in town and aren’t registered for the event, there’s still time...
View ArticleErlang Factory SF and Basho Bash 2012
March 26, 2012 This is a big week for Basho. Erlang Factory A handful of Basho employees are in San Francisco this week for Erlang Factory SF 2012, taking place March 26th - March 31st at the Marines’...
View ArticleBasho at Philadelphia ETE Conference April 10-11
April 9, 2012 The 7th annual Philadelphia ETE conference is taking place this week at the Sheraton Society Hill Hotel, located in Philadelphia’s beautiful historic district. The organizers have...
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Riak Badges For Your Site
April 18, 2012 Basho’s awesome designer John Newman spent some time putting together beautiful badges that will make great additions to your sites if you’re running Riak and want to tell the world....
View ArticleBerkeley DB at Yammer
April 26, 2012 At Basho we love Yammer. Besides making a product that we rely on internally, they are long-time Riak fans and advocates, and have built a large Riak cluster to power notifications for...
View ArticleWhy Your Riak Cluster Should Have At Least Five Nodes
April 26, 2012 Here at Basho we want to make sure that your Riak implementations are set up from the beginning to succeed. While you can use the Riak Fast Track to quickly set up a 3-node dev/test...
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Basho Office in Cambridge is All New
April 30, 2012 The majority of the Basho team is descending upon Cambridge, MA this week for an All-Hands Meetup. We’re a distributed company, and function well as such, but it’s great to get everyone...
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